Example sentences of "[noun sg] waiting for " in BNC.
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| 1 | I stay in my corner like a boxer waiting for the bell . |
| 2 | ‘ I 'll see your mum has a nice cup of tea waiting for you ’ |
| 3 | When we got in there was no tea waiting for us . |
| 4 | Evan 's angry and embarrassed , Nic 's sullen beyond belief , there 's a rammed , expectant club waiting for them to play , and all they want to do is moan at their manager ( who also works for Nirvana ) back in the States . |
| 5 | ‘ Here 's a horse waiting for ye sir . ’ |
| 6 | Spry , who has spent the duration of the interview waiting for his chicken and pineapple pizza to arrive , flicks through a copy of Vogue Collection . |
| 7 | There is room for a couple : one here behind the luggage ( hunched like a cosmonaut hurtling into the unknown ) and another there beneath the bottom bunk ( blankets burying a crouched figure waiting for rebirth ) . |
| 8 | Howard Baker ( that is his name ) is sitting in front of a green light waiting for a green light because he is thinking . |
| 9 | As they stood patiently in a doorway waiting for the column to pass , Catherine turned to say something to McLeish and he looked down at her for a long moment . |
| 10 | Ultimately he believes that harmonisation of duty within the European Community must happen , but he is not sitting on the edge of his seat waiting for it : ‘ Politically we understand that uniform EC excise duty will not happen overnight , but alcohol is alcohol and we should be taxing alcohol volume and not the form that it comes in . ’ |
| 11 | Ann Thwaite , in her biography Waiting for the Party , suggests the relevance to The Lost Prince of a certain incident in October 1913 . |
| 12 | Bottle-necks were not restricted to the railways ; at the end of March twentyfive ships lay in Reval harbour waiting for berths . |
| 13 | Her face flushed and she turned almost desperately to Marguerite as they sat in the small gold and white salon waiting for their refreshments . |
| 14 | But the Hall of Light faded , and the impression of great elegance and immense silence and a drifting unfamiliar scent faded , and he was falling forward and there was some kind of cell waiting for him , and this was surely the end of everything , and this was surely all he could ever expect anywhere in the entire world … |
| 15 | Try pulling one of the other 's single doors open on a mountain in a gale waiting for a gust to catch it and snap the stay . |
| 16 | And , on his way to meet the Prime Minister , Mr Delors bumped his head on the car waiting for him at Heathrow . |
| 17 | We will fly you both from Heathrow or Manchester to Aberdeen , where you will find a complimentary car waiting for you , and which is yours for the entire weekend . |
| 18 | I sat in the restaurant car waiting for breakfast and peered eagerly through steamy windows at an obscure grey landscape , unwilling to miss any part of the new ground that I was covering . |
| 19 | If she had told Richard about Harry , and about Maurice 's dubious cargo , he would n't have had to lie in a pool of blood waiting for her own daughter to rescue him . |
| 20 | Ward began to explain , about Iris Sunderby and the boat waiting for us in Punta Arenas . |
| 21 | ‘ There 's also a boat waiting for us down at Punta Arenas . |
| 22 | I can see fields and reservoirs and a motorway service station , and , given the proper magnification , I could probably make out Parish Clerk Weekley still on his roof waiting for his next photocall . |
| 23 | The result was that four travellers were now sitting in the airport terminal waiting for the next flight , which was probably full anyway . |
| 24 | Alice could see that it was not going to be easy for any of them to admit obligation to Jasper , even though he was being correctly impersonal , sitting somewhat to one side of the scene waiting for their approval , the image of a responsible cadre . |
| 25 | But the trees on their own , it 's like a scene waiting for something happen . |
| 26 | Outside the chamber , Corbett found the captain of the guard waiting for him , a little more relaxed now he realised that Corbett was acceptable to the Queen-Dowager . |
| 27 | Employing a lounge-lizard gait , he swaggered towards me as I stood at the bar waiting for my Coke . |
| 28 | I told him the captain was out walking , and the man waited , like a cat waiting for a mouse . |
| 29 | He had an enjoyable job of work waiting for him , and asked for no more than that . |
| 30 | In London , even if a case were delayed because a witness had not presented himself or the judge was ill , there was always plenty of work waiting for her in chambers . |