Example sentences of "just waiting " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm just waiting to see who I have to thank for it . ’ |
| 2 | The result is that many glider pilots are becoming complacent about parking and on a really windy day it is not unusual to see gliders at risk , just waiting for the first really big gust of wind to blow them over . |
| 3 | I tried a pink old lady with the future of the universe mapped on her face with linear symbols just waiting to be decoded by anyone who had the wisdom and the patience to want to do so . |
| 4 | ‘ If we can prove this works , ’ Mr Dowding said , ‘ I am sure there are a lot of other farmers who want to give it a try and are just waiting . |
| 5 | ‘ I 'm just waiting for a cab . ’ |
| 6 | he replied , ‘ There are bastards around just waiting for someone to cop it , then they dash out and pinch his bloody boots . ’ |
| 7 | It is a treadmill , but if an artist is n't prepared to do it , there are two or three hundred others just waiting for their chance . |
| 8 | The mountains hang everywhere , big vertical peaks just waiting to be climbed . |
| 9 | Inside all of us there is a sultry , glamorous model just waiting to step under the studio lights . |
| 10 | ‘ Just Cause ’ was a carefully planned invasion just waiting to happen , poised at the starting gate for the kind of justification that the macho thug in Panama City was bound to provide sooner or later . |
| 11 | I mean really useful , not just waiting about for the next piffling stage part . ’ |
| 12 | Of course , for every Miss Miniver of 1909 there was probably an Ann Veronica , her dormant and delicious sexuality just waiting for H. G. Wells , New Man that he was , to wave his magic wand . |
| 13 | ‘ I do n't think it was as much that as people just waiting to see LL Cool J getting over-excited , ’ says Wildski . |
| 14 | As he had always suspected , she was just waiting and watching for an opportunity to rip him to pieces . |
| 15 | I sat for what seemed a long time in the cold darkness , breathing shallowly , not moving at all , just waiting , and eventually there was a lightening of the shadows and a luminosity in the wood , and the moon rose clear and bright in the east . |
| 16 | The problem with Channel 5 is that it is not lying empty , like a new motorway just waiting for somebody to cut the ribbon . |
| 17 | Property : The frustrated architects just waiting for a call |
| 18 | It is an exciting place to play golf , with plenty of water and long sandy wastes just waiting to gobble up the wayward shots . |
| 19 | This morning we slipped into Mansfield for coffee and a haircut ; and now I 'm just waiting to be relieved , and rush to the letter rack . |
| 20 | From the barren Sahara in the south to the fertile wine-producing plains of the north , Tunisia is a land of variety and surprise just waiting to be experienced . |
| 21 | But you 're just waiting for it to happen . ’ |
| 22 | And at three or four a.m. that morning , as O and Boy kissed for the second time , the blade of a Stanley knife sliced for the second time across the cheek of a man ( I do n't remember his name , it was n't anyone I knew ) who was at that time on his own , not with anyone , just waiting , on his own , at a bus stop , waiting for a night bus which was due at any minute . |
| 23 | Andover had closed down and the ramp was just waiting for fate . |
| 24 | In New York , Tel Aviv , Athens , at a big reception or among friends , taking a curtain call with his dancers , chatting to a stranger , even just waiting for something , he looks easy , interested , at home . |
| 25 | In the seventeenth century some preformationists claimed they could detect in the head of the sperm cell a tiny person in miniature — a homunculus — just waiting to emerge . |
| 26 | Maybe she was just waiting for a chance to go abroad and wanted to be ready to leave at any time . |
| 27 | He could be seen most mornings at the door of his shop in Wimbledon Village , arms crossed , mouth twisted in a superior sneer , just waiting for the chance to decode the small print on the front of buses . |
| 28 | Now there 's a hot-bed that 's just waiting for an explosion . |
| 29 | ‘ Kelpie may be safe and sound at this very moment , for all we know , just waiting to be collected from somebody who 's found him , so cheer up — do . ’ |
| 30 | I knew that we could get an immunity , normally by going to the doctor and having a vaccination or inoculation , but I never knew that right inside every one of us there was a built-in fire brigade , a whole troupe of Red Adair troubleshooters just waiting to be called upon to do their stuff . |