Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] be [adv] waiting for " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ That 's a fair assumption , although we 're still waiting for the full results from the post-mortem . ’ |
| 2 | He says that he will not go to Maputo until he receives the money that the UN promised to him and to other party leaders to start up their election campaign ; the UN says that it is still waiting for the donors to deliver the money . |
| 3 | The Colonel explained that he was still waiting for orders , and the General swore like the trooper he had once been and said that a French officer did not need orders when the enemy was in plain sight . |
| 4 | When she put the glass down , she saw that he was still waiting for a reply . |
| 5 | Well at the present moment it 's about , where he is it 's about half past five , twenty to six , so he is probably waiting for his supper I should think his evening meal . |
| 6 | ‘ And I 'm still waiting for my brandy . ’ |
| 7 | And I 'm still waiting for you to explain why you locked me in here . ’ |
| 8 | And I 'm still waiting for your explanation of how you come to be here . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ I asked you a question and I 'm still waiting for your answer . |
| 10 | No , that sounds as if I 'm passively waiting for something to turn up . |
| 11 | Thus when you are the only person to get up when a lady comes into the room , or when everyone has half finished their food and you are still waiting for Grace , by standing up , for failing to lift fork and knife , you are drawing attention to the sins of omission of the others and silently rebuking them . |
| 12 | If you are simply waiting for some other piece of paper to arrive put the original item on a bring forward file with instruction to your clerk or secretary . |
| 13 | Tyrone farmer Martin Brogan , from Gortin , said : ‘ Our counterparts in the Republic have received their payments over two weeks ago and we are still waiting for ours . |
| 14 | And er I know the housing office always had excuses that they had put the the report in and we were just waiting for someone to do it . |
| 15 | I 'd told her not to worry and that he was one of the lads , although I 'd never seen him before , and we were just waiting for her to go before we started the party . |
| 16 | I think there is a problem in that , I mean , as you know , at the university now we could actually send our mail , and we do have this facility on certain displays and you just put in mail and you see if there 's any waiting for you . |
| 17 | Christie 's have got it and they 're just waiting for the right sale . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Carefully he tried again but Cameron took his arm and told him not to hurry unduly , the joists had only been pinned in place and they were still waiting for the long nails from Grandtully . |
| 20 | I 'm going back to the erm controversial emotive subject of atomic power I suppose , as you said earlier , the the atomic bomb and erm I suppose the most worrying thing for er for everybody was when erm the Cuba crisis was on and everybody was just waiting for these mushrooms to appear over London because we all thought we were gon na be bombed at any time but er obviously the other thing that sort of worries people is other things that you said about Chernobyl and Three Mile Island but on the other side , obviously the erm the low cost of atomic power must be the advantage for the future . |
| 21 | As far as he 's concerned , Barney is his man and he 's simply waiting for the forensic reports to confirm it . |
| 22 | ‘ We understand he 's still in Moscow , and he 's just waiting for the work permit to come through before signing for us . ’ |
| 23 | The then Opposition spokesman said that would quickly be done , but I am still waiting for Labour Members to choose the subject for debate in the Select Committee . |
| 24 | But you 're just waiting for it to happen . ’ |
| 25 | Otherwise you might be desperate to get awa to do something , or get away on holiday , but you 're still waiting for that big win . |
| 26 | The brood sizes have been steadily increasing but we are still waiting for out oldest fry to start reproducing . |
| 27 | This is because we are still waiting for the connecting bus from Wolverhampton … ‘ ! |
| 28 | At about midnight , while we were still waiting for him to come home , we noticed the wind was getting stronger . |