Example sentences of "waiting for her " in BNC.
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| 1 | This last quality was , however , manifest in his second ( and best ) film , Le Coeur Battant ( 1961 ) , a witty and enchanting comedy about a couple in a small seaside resort — she ( Francoise Brion ) waiting for her lover to arrive and he ( Jean-Louis Trintignant ) gradually falling in love with her but refusing to admit it even to himself . |
| 2 | Rezia is waiting for her son to come home from school . |
| 3 | Greta 's still waiting for her knight in shining armour |
| 4 | In the hall sat Claudia Yeo herself , evidently waiting for her husband , and Tim stopped to say hello to her . |
| 5 | So it was that every time I went to see her , she would run forward and stand , head on one side , looking like a little robin , waiting for her kiss . |
| 6 | ‘ Well ? ’ she asked again , waiting for her sister to go . |
| 7 | When she spent all night every night watching her clientele , her boys , it was for this ; she was waiting for her chosen ones , the last of her protegés , her perfect couple , her two to see her through the dark times . |
| 8 | Eva Hendrix , an empty glass on the plate glass table , was sitting waiting for her food . |
| 9 | Returning to the front entrance , he found Hendrix still waiting for her food , smoking yet another cigarette . |
| 10 | I admired my daughter-in-law so much the day I saw her stand a full five minutes waiting for her little boy who was watching a worm disappearing through a hole in the earth . |
| 11 | My sister , later WAAF Nancy Smith Mentioned in Dispatches , was waiting for her call-up papers . |
| 12 | I have to point out that she is wasting her life caught up in waiting for her thoughts and ideas to come true in reality . |
| 13 | A tap at the door and without waiting for her answer it opened a fraction . |
| 14 | Having passed the equivalent of the first MD examination , the universities could hardly turn her away , though places were made conditional on her waiting for her eighteenth birthday before going up . |
| 15 | He looked up through the branches into the sky , waiting for her tears to pass . |
| 16 | After five years of waiting for her neighbour to complete a sentence , the queen of coffee beans finally decided to try out another date — an Italian whose uniqueness lay in his not being able to speak a word of his native language . |
| 17 | While waiting for her passengers as they inspected isolated gun-sites on windswept clifftops and rocky promontories , Liza was urged by her passengers to switch on the car engine to keep herself warm , however much she knew this procedure to be frowned upon by her direct superiors at Command Headquarters . |
| 18 | GOOD for Princess Anne , waiting for her children to arrive in Barcelona instead of going to the Opening Ceremony without them . |
| 19 | Generally though , prior to laying an egg , the female cuckoo will watch the intended host 's nest for several hours , sitting quietly in a tree or bush , waiting for her opportunity . |
| 20 | The girl subdued her weeping , and stood , head bent , before Alice , waiting for her verdict , or sentence . |
| 21 | She stood at the head of the small table , waiting for her son and daughter to seat themselves on either side of her and then sat down . |
| 22 | Whilst waiting for her divorce , Henrietta moved with Norman to rooms in Belsize Park . |
| 23 | Without waiting for her response , he pulled a long cord , gave instructions to the butler and came to sit opposite her . |
| 24 | The poor unhappy spiders were waiting for her help . |
| 25 | There was a pause ; he seemed to be waiting for her permission . |
| 26 | The penicillin injected into Julia 's veins four times a day killed the infection inexorably , and within three days the oxygen tent had been removed and she was sitting up in bed waiting for her meals with real hunger . |
| 27 | Her daughter was taken away to Special Care , and she , like Nickie , hated seeing fathers come in looking pleased while she sat alone on her bed , waiting for her mother . |
| 28 | In her admittedly bland , yet rather touching view of the Queen Mother , Alison Watt included her trademark , a lone tea-cup , which brought forth the scorn of critics like Brian Sewell , who called it ‘ a hideous jumble ’ , making the Queen Mother look like ‘ an ancient pensioner waiting for her 100th birthday telegram from the Queen ’ . |
| 29 | She knew that it was going to seem like forever , waiting for her friends , because the time you spend waiting always seems longer than it really is . |
| 30 | Well that 's fine for Elizabeth but Catherine 's sort of half left school , if she has n't she 's waiting for her G C S Es and she 's not sure whether she 's got to go back or what she 's doing . |