Example sentences of "[pron] [be] waiting for him " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm waiting for him . |
| 2 | I was waiting for him to say they were drugged to keep them quiet — their huge eyes blinked as if they were half asleep . |
| 3 | While I was waiting for him , an assistant approached and asked if she could help . |
| 4 | Lewis Luther was there within five minutes , and I was waiting for him in the foyer by Purvis 's desk . |
| 5 | I was waiting for him to say he went out and rolled in the snow because that 's the proper end is n't it ? |
| 6 | Someone was waiting for him . |
| 7 | You ca n't think like that Has he died yet , sounds like you 're waiting for him to die ! |
| 8 | When he went upstairs , she was waiting for him . |
| 9 | She was waiting for him to make some reply , and he said slowly : ‘ I guess you must be homesick , now Captain Dawson is n't here . ’ |
| 10 | If she was waiting for him to say that she did n't need to diet she had a long wait . |
| 11 | She was waiting for him to come home , when Liddy knocked and entered . |
| 12 | She was waiting for him to kiss her , he realized , and it seemed suddenly to be the natural thing to do . |
| 13 | She was waiting for him to come back when the telephone rang . |
| 14 | She was waiting for him , sat on the huge bed , her legs folded under her , the vermilion robe she had worn on their wedding morning pulled about her . |
| 15 | She was waiting for him in the apartment . |
| 16 | So the next morning she went to Rouen station , and when her son , still wearing a fresh crust of pride and sex , got off the train , she was waiting for him on the platform . |
| 17 | There was a pause ; she was waiting for him to react . |
| 18 | She was glad she had the stone , when he came into the byre ; she was waiting for him as he had asked her to , she had made her way across the orchard in the fresh blue morning and let herself in through the wooden door by lifting it off its hinges , since the bolt had rusted fast long ago , and she had looked up at the full moon of the sky in the chimney hole at the centre of the round shelter 's roof , and with her stone which was sharp as a shearing knife with a bright , honed blade the marks of the whetstone were still visible in pale striations like scouring tracks — she scraped her name into one of the stones on the interior , as many others had done before her , in tall shapely capitals , the only letters she knew . |
| 19 | He kept asking her to get to the point as he was in a meeting , while she was waiting for him to get to the point , since , as far as she was aware , he 'd made the call to her in the first place . |
| 20 | She was waiting for him and ran across the entrance court to meet him . |
| 21 | She was waiting for him . |
| 22 | Switching the engine off , he leaned over and kissed her again , and this time she was waiting for him , kissing him back with an inner longing . |
| 23 | She was waiting for him to rant on — her face coolly patient . |
| 24 | But he was confronted by an ecstatic welcome from his mother , who was waiting for him on the doorstep . |
| 25 | He met people , made friends and absent-mindedly let them drive him home to his parents , forgetting the bride upstairs who was waiting for him to come and claim his ‘ marital rights ’ . |
| 26 | All the same it was Dr Kate Ash who was waiting for him in her small flat , dressed in one of her smart business suits , two matching cases ready by her side . |
| 27 | And erm you know , we 're waiting for him to come back and say , Yeah we need to talk . |
| 28 | When at 10.45am we had resigned ourselves to a day of swimming and sunbathing a farmer pulled up and asked , in German , if we were waiting for him . |
| 29 | 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 . ’ |
| 30 | But they 're waiting for him at the telecottage , a converted school which is due to run out of HIE and BT funding soon and is aiming to become a profitable business , specialising in desk-top publishing , graphic design and printing . |