Example sentences of "[v-ing] for [pron] to turn [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We were waiting for them to turn up at Hamish and Tone 's but they never showed . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | She 'll hang around the Earls Court guest house till then , waiting for me to turn up and whisk her out for a spaghetti . |
| 4 | ‘ You could spend hours waiting for her to turn up , ’ says a former royal watcher . |
| 5 | I could n't face sitting at the station waiting for him to turn up : I was damn well going to make him wait for me . |
| 6 | Alternatively , Ho may simply have been waiting for something to turn up , something that would tip the scales one way or the other in the situation that was neither peace nor war . |
| 7 | A large spider 's web occupied one corner of the room near the ceiling and he could just make out the spider lurking there , quite motionless ; emulating Mr Micawber , waiting for something to turn up . |
| 8 | No , that sounds as if I 'm passively waiting for something to turn up . |
| 9 | Meaning if you hang on hoping for something to turn up , you invariably lose much more . |