Example sentences of "waiting for someone " in BNC.
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| 1 | he replied , ‘ There are bastards around just waiting for someone to cop it , then they dash out and pinch his bloody boots . ’ |
| 2 | Without moving he watched McQuaid struggle from the car and then stand leaning on the open door as if waiting for someone to appear . |
| 3 | Are you waiting for someone ? , |
| 4 | Sometimes when I was drunk and I 'd see him standing there looking all quiet and black and white and gorgeous , waiting for someone to take him home , I 'd get all teary and want to go up and slap him and shout in his face : How can you possibly understand what it means ! |
| 5 | Johnny Boy was waiting for someone to pull into his driveway . |
| 6 | ‘ Waiting for someone else , I suppose . ’ |
| 7 | With the provoking incident of the previous week still fresh in his mind , Lefevre had taken the precaution of hiring a cab in advance of any possible need , telling the driver half-truthfully that he was waiting for someone . |
| 8 | Many a time , I sat outside waiting for someone to come along but it was never bust while I was there . |
| 9 | All through the week they gathered waiting for someone to pop his or her head round the entrance and shout that there was an audition , and they were off like a shot , their audition clothes naturally packed in a case by their table . |
| 10 | Certainly the worst way to come to terms happily with being alone is to struggle constantly against it , always waiting for someone else to come along and take away our loneliness . |
| 11 | ‘ I 'm waiting for someone ’ Violet said . |
| 12 | I thought she must have been waiting for someone … ’ |
| 13 | Her feeling was that Meryl had been waiting for someone … |
| 14 | I 've been on the other side of things often enough — guitar in hand , waiting for someone behind a mixing desk to give me the word to start playing — but they 'd never actually let me touch anything ! |
| 15 | ‘ But all that day and the next few days I was waiting for someone to come in . |
| 16 | That is why , say many Beijingers , ‘ we are waiting for someone to die ’ . |
| 17 | Yet the army too is waiting for someone to die , and the different factions of the party leadership are replicated in its high command . |
| 18 | But to have him sitting beside him , looking his followers over in silence and courteously waiting for someone else to speak first — this was a situation beyond Hazel 's experience . |
| 19 | Did she say she was waiting for someone ? |
| 20 | He might have been waiting for someone . |
| 21 | ‘ Maybe she waiting for someone to show her the town . ’ |
| 22 | It was when the pale flood of light returned that Stephen saw the man — He was quite a long way off , not far in from the road , and he was standing quite still as if waiting for someone or watching . |
| 23 | And er I know the housing office always had excuses that they had put the the report in and we were just waiting for someone to do it . |
| 24 | ‘ I 've been down here half the night , waiting for someone like you , ’ the stranger said . |
| 25 | She is gazing up Highgate Hill ( or Highgate West Hill ) , waiting for someone . |
| 26 | ‘ I 'm waiting for someone , ’ says the woman , looking round anxiously . |
| 27 | ‘ Are n't you waiting for someone ? ’ |
| 28 | Bob 's phone rang , and while he was talking Dyson , who was sitting back in his chair and waiting for someone at the other end of the line , covered up the mouthpiece of his phone and said , ‘ Are you coming to the funeral , Tess ? ’ |
| 29 | They used to have to be brave , now they just have to hang around waiting for someone to press a button . |
| 30 | She could n't stand here all day waiting for someone to appear . |