Example sentences of "[pron] were waiting [prep] [pron] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But , in meantime while I were waiting for them to ring me I were that mad ! |
| 2 | ‘ People asked me and Derrick what we were doing over the past two years and the answer that I want to give is that we were waiting for everybody to catch up . |
| 3 | We were waiting for them to turn up at Hamish and Tone 's but they never showed . |
| 4 | Here we had a man who we knew had serious problems that constituted a danger to himself and others , and we sat back , simply because we were waiting for him to admit he had a problem . ’ |
| 5 | All he could say was that we were waiting for something to happen . ’ |
| 6 | He cleared the image and , for a while sat there , conscious that they were waiting for him to say what was on his mind . |
| 7 | But there was no malice in their interest and I sometimes had the feeling that they were waiting for me to turn round and hand them a bag of toffees , with instructions to share them out fairly and not throw the papers on the floor . |
| 8 | They were waiting for me to get beaten . |
| 9 | Black clouds were rolling up over the forest to his right , which now looked hostile , as though it were waiting for him to make a false move ; to tall perhaps , so that it could advance and swallow him , like a wild animal . |