Example sentences of "waiting for my " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had done all the cooking and was waiting for my husband to come home . |
| 2 | ‘ Waiting for my Mum , ’ said Dot . |
| 3 | ‘ Yes , thanks , ’ I said , taking one , ‘ I 'm waiting for my husband . ’ |
| 4 | I told him I was waiting for my boyfriend , and he got back in his car but still sat there , looking at me . |
| 5 | I am waiting for my Mama , and neither Martha nor Minna can comfort me . |
| 6 | G. S. Staines , of Darlington , was highly commended for ‘ No , I 'm not going just yet ; I 'm still waiting for my wife who has gone to collect a prescription . ’ |
| 7 | I therefore continued to stand there awkwardly , waiting for my employer to give me permission to undertake the motoring trip . |
| 8 | While I was waiting for my companions to stir , I put water on to boil , but soon noticed that the stove had given up . |
| 9 | ‘ I sat patiently waiting for my buddy to join me , ’ Jinky continued . |
| 10 | After six miles and double that number of overtaking vehicles , a car drew up , patiently waiting for my embarrassing clumsy backpacking lurch to catch up with it . |
| 11 | I went to Westminster one night in mid-March , and was waiting for my bus just outside the Abbey . |
| 12 | And I 'm out a lot , I tend to just slurp down a cup of Slimma-soup , stick a wee dollop of quiche in the microwave or something while I 'm waiting for my Carmens to heat up . |
| 13 | Sitting outside my childhood home , waiting for my mother to come home , even though I had watched her die , she thought . |
| 14 | Employing a lounge-lizard gait , he swaggered towards me as I stood at the bar waiting for my Coke . |
| 15 | I stood looking down a flight of seven stairs in my Afro wig , custom-built frock and charm bracelet , listening to the band tune up and waiting for my intro . |
| 16 | I 'm just waiting for my international clearance now , which should only take a few days , and then I 'll be aiming to challenge for a first team place . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ being a common prostitute ’ Proof of this point must be available to negate any defence of accident or mistake , e.g. ‘ That I was waiting for my boy friend or taxi etc . ’ |
| 18 | With only an usher for company , he showed no outward signs of distress as he said : ‘ I had been in bed for five minutes waiting for my mummy . |
| 19 | We had Nick Kent on The Joystrings , Julie Burchill on the road with Sounds Of Blackness , and Charles Shaar Murray considering whether or not The Man represents a returning Jesus in Lou Reed 's ‘ I 'm Waiting For My Man ’ . |
| 20 | ‘ I 'm just waiting for my chewing gum to come round again . ’ |
| 21 | So here I am , a week later , aloft in the canopy of my monkey-puzzle tree , staring out across the darkening street , waiting for my love to come home . |
| 22 | If I did n't know I doubt I would be sitting here , waiting for the dawn to stream , screaming derision through the louvres , waiting for my wife to die . |
| 23 | I spent all the next seven months waiting for my case to come up and fighting to keep my daughter . |
| 24 | I sat on the pew sucking my sore thumb , staring at the glowing valves , waiting for my father and the hard questions I knew — whatever he said — were coming . |
| 25 | ‘ I 'm just waiting for my friends , ’ she answered . |
| 26 | Waiting for my breath to find its heavy keel I took a turn around the hired loft . |
| 27 | ‘ And I 'm still waiting for my brandy . ’ |
| 28 | I complied and he bellowed ‘ Five months , I 've been waiting for my telephone . |
| 29 | Summertime was nearly over , and my wife would lie alone and lonely in our cave , waiting for my return , looking with her sightless eyes for her lover , uttering never a word of complaint . |
| 30 | ‘ Beautiful , ’ he murmured , ‘ beautiful little rose-buds , just waiting for my kiss . |