Example sentences of "waiting for [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The abbot 's guests had dispersed decorously , Rémy and Earl Robert in amicable company to the guesthall , where Bénezet was already returned from his evening in the town , in good time to attend his lord , as the earl 's two squires stood ready and waiting for theirs . |
| 3 | Up the slope , at the top of his semi-circular steps , Alexander Menzies was waiting for them in his best silk coat like a dandy at a ball , with a straightfaced young man standing by his side . |
| 4 | The emigrants ' discomfort was aggravated by tantalising radio reports of the steaming soup tureens , hot water and clean clothes waiting for them at the reception centre in Hof , West Germany . |
| 5 | There were about thirty people waiting for them as they left their home . |
| 6 | A fortnight away by the sea and when they came back , the flat all ready and waiting for them . |
| 7 | ‘ I 've put through a call to London and I 'm waiting for them to ring me up . |
| 8 | I roll the glass ball round in my hand a bit , waiting for them to say summat . |
| 9 | The Land Rover bumped along the track to where the young detective constable , looking chilled and ti red , was waiting for them . |
| 10 | They had plenty of berries and there would be jobs ready and waiting for them . |
| 11 | This can actually produce those distressing occasions when , for example , a husband and wife are sitting there looking at each other , the dying one trying very hard to get on and die because they understand everyone is waiting for them to do so , and the survivor trapped with their feelings of guilt about wishing their relative would die , whilst at the same time not being able to leave the person 's side in case they miss the moment . |
| 12 | Horses nearly always hesitate when they are led into a dark stable at night , even if they know their dinner is ready and waiting for them there . |
| 13 | Ross Perot , a Texas billionaire , advanced $1m as a down-payment , but no hostages appeared off Cyprus where Secord was waiting for them . |
| 14 | Or perhaps he was waiting for them to start counting their blessings there and then . |
| 15 | Ministers arriving at their desks next week will find detailed briefs waiting for them and officials asking for decisions to be taken quickly . |
| 16 | The catapult was waiting for them . |
| 17 | ‘ We do n't seem to have it , ’ Mr Crangle would say to the boy as they returned to his desk to find the book lying there , waiting for them . |
| 18 | Three days after leaving Alexandria the whole column met up with Timpson 's LRDG patrol , which was waiting for them . |
| 19 | When they returned , they discovered that the main body of men had already flown out and that a party of drivers under Scratchley was waiting for them to join the vehicle convoy south through the Great Sand Sea . |
| 20 | He had a premonition that the enemy might be waiting for them . |
| 21 | He did n't explain why it was going to be helpful and the pilot told him the car he 'd specified was waiting for them . |
| 22 | At 5 o'clock they turned up to find the police waiting for them . |
| 23 | Her palms were sweating as she stood in the wings in her best green dress waiting for them to come off so that she could get on . |
| 24 | There is no council housing waiting for them , and the homelessness , debt and marital problems that accompany unemployment have become rural as well as city problems . |
| 25 | They had been waiting for them , forewarned , rifles at the ready . |
| 26 | We had ten bobbies in five pairs waiting for them coming out . |
| 27 | Green was waiting for them , not only to give them lessons but also to sell them additional colours specially to represent the true Lake District tints . |
| 28 | They made their way back , not to the abbey but the castle , Corbett sending ahead one of his escort to ask Wishart for an audience and when they arrived the old , foxy-faced Bishop was waiting for them in his now sweltering chambers , though still swathed in fur-trimmed robes . |
| 29 | I caught up with them about 3.30pm in Jackson Bridge where they were finishing a hymn , and possibly a silent prayer , before they marched back up the steep winding hill to Hepworth where a free tea was waiting for them in the school . |
| 30 | Sammy was already sitting waiting for them , his tail thumping the ground impatiently from side to side . |