Example sentences of "waiting for [indef pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She is expecting to be met by a local member of Committee staff and so is not surprised when a young Thai dressed formally in dark trousers and white short-sleeved shirt and carrying a dark peaked cap comes up to her and says , ‘ Excuse me , you are waiting for some-one ? ’ |
| 2 | ‘ People asked me and Derrick what we were doing over the past two years and the answer that I want to give is that we were waiting for everybody to catch up . |
| 3 | Have we any answer to the jibe , ‘ If it is the right thing to do , you would be doing it now instead of waiting for everyone else' ? ’ |
| 4 | And I thought blimey , he 's a mongol , you know , when you 're looking at them , and then I was looking at the nurses and waiting for everyone to say something , and nobody said nothing . |
| 5 | It looked as if they were waiting for somebody , could it be me ? |
| 6 | The problem with Channel 5 is that it is not lying empty , like a new motorway just waiting for somebody to cut the ribbon . |
| 7 | I 'm sure I would have missed it had I not been waiting for somebody nearby . |
| 8 | She was staring straight past me , sitting very still , as though waiting for somebody to come out of the house . |
| 9 | Well it holding it in pawn , waiting for somebody to ask him to have a drink , and invariably somebody would but if they did ask him they 'd always ask him back next time you know if they could n't do it this time . |
| 10 | Actually , I 'd been waiting for somebody else but I just happened to be on hand and I could n't just stand there and watch her struggle with all those boxes , suitcases , typewriters , bicycles , stereo systems and so on . |
| 11 | You 're waiting for somebody to audit and find something wrong . |
| 12 | He said : ‘ I feel myself that there are people out there who have information but are waiting for somebody else to come forward . |
| 13 | When we were , that Sunday when we all sat here waiting for somebody to say something . |
| 14 | I was waiting for somebody to pass the creme caramel out of the fridge . |
| 15 | I 'm waiting for somebody |
| 16 | Are you waiting for somebody coming ? |
| 17 | I 'm very glad to see that there 's quite a lot of nurses here , and I presume that quite a lot of those are women nurses , and I think that this is terribly important , and I think a useful thing with this new service could do is to go out and talk for instance to the meetings of women 's organisations , to old peoples ' clubs in the afternoon , and actually ask people what they would like , and get them talking in a nice informal way , rather than waiting for somebody to let them know what they think , because I do n't think they 're going to get it . |
| 18 | So that 's all arranged and now it 's just waiting for everything |
| 19 | If you run the dog down the field , you look over your shoulder all the time , waiting for one to hit you . |
| 20 | They are all outside their houses , staring along the roads , waiting for something . ’ |
| 21 | Watching him and waiting for something . |
| 22 | Day after day Charles sat waiting for something to happen , but nothing ever did . |
| 23 | They all seemed to be watching us and waiting for something spectacular to take place . |
| 24 | Mungo had a strong sensation that the dark cavity was waiting for something to happen . |
| 25 | ‘ When they become alarmed they go very quiet , waiting for something to happen so that they can run in the opposite direction . |
| 26 | It claimed that people feel more in control of their lives if they are inching forward on a journey , rather than waiting for something to happen . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | We went down into the station shelter and I experienced the familiar claustrophobic sensation of waiting for something to happen . |
| 29 | Marian was deep in thought but what she was thinking about she hardly knew : only that there was distance and stillness all around her and that the forest seemed to be watching her , and waiting for something to happen . |
| 30 | They had stayed while the sun went down and all the time Tom had lain watching and waiting for something to happen — for something was bound to happen , otherwise for what reason had they come ? |