Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] be [adv] wait for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bryan Gould is as good as gold and Gerald Kaufman is a happy-go-lucky bachelor who 's still waiting for the right girl to come along . |
| 2 | He also alleged that the KGB had recruited hundreds of British traitors who were only waiting for the signal from Moscow to begin destroying Britain 's communication system and military establishments around the country . |
| 3 | It soon became evident that the orchestra was fractionally behind on several entries — not enough to unsettle the soloist-aware listener , but after a while I was just waiting for it to happen . |
| 4 | His eyes kept looking away over one of my shoulders or the other , never meeting my gaze , and I got the impression that like his wife he was constantly waiting for something important to happen , expecting someone to arrive at any moment , as though they both could n't believe what had happened and it was all a dream or a ghastly joke and they were just waiting for Clare to come gangling through the front door , kicking off muddy green wellies and loudly demanding tea . |
| 5 | Martinho had the air of a man who was permanently waiting for a question to be answered . |
| 6 | I thought bloody hell Lynn you 're only waiting for fifty P , you know ? |
| 7 | The look that recognised , no matter what their hard fighting and their successes so far , that all the future hinged on the army they were now waiting for . |