Example sentences of "[pron] be waiting [prep] [pers pn] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm waiting for them to answer . |
| 2 | ‘ I 've put through a call to London and I 'm waiting for them to ring me up . |
| 3 | ‘ Perhaps I 'm waiting for you to ask me how I am . ’ |
| 4 | I 'm waiting for you to settle down . |
| 5 | I 'm waiting for you to make those things in your erm |
| 6 | ‘ I 'm waiting for you to announce the wedding . |
| 7 | ‘ I 'm waiting for you to speak , young woman . ’ |
| 8 | I 'm waiting for it to go down and all , I 've got the eight . |
| 9 | But , in meantime while I were waiting for them to ring me I were that mad ! |
| 10 | I was waiting for him to say they were drugged to keep them quiet — their huge eyes blinked as if they were half asleep . |
| 11 | 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 ? |
| 12 | Listening to Friends on the album , I was waiting for it to modulate to a minor key in the middle … |
| 13 | I was waiting for it to show up an confront us . |
| 14 | I was waiting for you to gong me , ’ he told police . |
| 15 | I was waiting for you , I was waiting for you to say |
| 16 | I was waiting for you to delve . |
| 17 | You ca n't think like that Has he died yet , sounds like you 're waiting for him to die ! |
| 18 | It would be an enormous relief — and if you 're waiting for me to struggle , demand you release me , you can wait till hell freezes over , Feargal McMahon , because I would n't give you the satisfaction ! ’ |
| 19 | Marie looks at me like she 's waiting for me to say something . |
| 20 | I 'm sure she 's waiting for you to look in and say goodnight . ’ |
| 21 | so she 's er , she 's waiting for 'em to come to do that , anyway she 's er , somebody rang her did n't they and they asked her if she 'd have a little boy of four months old , Thursdays and Fridays all day and she started this week with him , so I said well Pauline |
| 22 | If she was waiting for him to say that she did n't need to diet she had a long wait . |
| 23 | There was a pause ; she was waiting for him to react . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . ’ |
| 26 | She was waiting for him to kiss her , he realized , and it seemed suddenly to be the natural thing to do . |
| 27 | She was waiting for him to come home , when Liddy knocked and entered . |
| 28 | She was waiting for him to come back when the telephone rang . |
| 29 | 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 ’ . |
| 30 | It 's as if she is away staying somewhere , and we are waiting for her to come back , we can not do anything until she returns . |