Example sentences of "be waiting for something [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | But the trees and the flowers all seemed to be waiting for something to happen . |
| 3 | All he could say was that we were waiting for something to happen . ’ |
| 4 | Mungo had a strong sensation that the dark cavity was waiting for something to happen . |
| 5 | It was waiting for something to happen ; as she too was waiting for something to happen — something which must , at all costs , be forbidden . |
| 6 | It was waiting for something to happen ; as she too was waiting for something to happen — something which must , at all costs , be forbidden . |