Example sentences of "[vb past] waiting [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Except that it if it involved waiting in this corridor for much longer , one of the security cameras might start to register her despite all diversionary moves , and she should therefore now take a break of at least six hours before coming back here . |
| 2 | The driver simply halted wherever people collected waiting for a ride rather like today 's bus request stops . |
| 3 | Each time I have a pint in the pub at Rhydd Ddu I recall a snowy Easter night spent waiting for mates who had set off earlier to tackle the Snowdon Horseshoe . |
| 4 | Hours spent waiting for instructions , wet time , and working on unbonussed operations would be included in total hours worked , but not set against the target hours . |
| 5 | Mr Lang also told the grand committee that figures due out this week , covering the year to December 1992 , would show marked improvements in the length of time National Health Service patients spent waiting for treatment ; a record number of patients and that the Government was on course to meet the guarantee that virtually no-one would have to wait more than 18 months for treatment . |
| 6 | Ever since I gave up my job and started waiting for the film to happen , I too have felt like a gap in between things . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Only child Adele wrote after reading about a local teenager who died waiting for a swap op . |
| 9 | Large empty pads of white paper lay waiting to be filled in . |
| 10 | Lang 's film was immediately hailed as a masterpiece especially with regard to its frighteningly real depiction of the prejudices and hysteria that lay waiting to be released in a typical Midwestern town . |
| 11 | Downstairs , Elsie Hogan , the bloom of youth scoured from her skeleton , lay waiting for the haemorrhage that would end it all . |
| 12 | Blair and I also walked out to another , superb loch where we had splendid sport , Scarilode ; about two hours ' walk along a good track from Market Stance , past Rueval , where Charles Edward Stewart lay waiting for Flora Macdonald , prior to his flight from the Hebrides . |
| 13 | Certainly , this does not have to be prenominal ; we can also expect it to turn up in postnominal attribution , and it does , in sentences like ( 13 ) ( a ) and ( b ) : ( 13 ) ( a ) the fish gutted lay waiting for the wholesalers ( b ) the fish , gutted , lay waiting for the wholesalers In the background of ( a ) , but not of ( b ) , there are other fish which have not undergone the same treatment . |
| 14 | The table was laid , and a roast chicken lay waiting for him to carve . |
| 15 | The boy went on his way and Durbeyfield lay waiting in the evening sun . |
| 16 | She kept waiting for him to do something , but he hesitated , as if he were waiting for her . |
| 17 | I was on time but kept waiting for a few minutes so that the assembled Health Authority Chairmen and administrators could pass a motion condemning the Government 's offer as divisive . |
| 18 | When the big wigs arrived , however , they were barely acknowledged by a dour receptionist , told to sit in a grubby waiting area strewn with cigarette ends and empty coffee cups , and kept waiting for half an hour without either apology or explanation . |
| 19 | The rest of the queen-dowager 's words were drowned by the prince 's whoops of joy — and the cardinal , kept waiting for over an hour , hearing the hullabaloo , exchanged relieved glances with his fellows . |
| 20 | I kept waiting for him to turn his head , so it , get , one properly . |
| 21 | He kept waiting for me . |
| 22 | I kept waiting in dread for someone to tap you on the shoulder and say , ‘ By the way , you know Damian is chairman of Flint Investments International ! ’ ’ |
| 23 | It 's no good depending as Owen said waiting for people to fit lights themselves , they wo n't because they do n't think accidents can happen to them . |
| 24 | He thought her pleasure in Florian 's win was for her once and future lover and , presumably , that in her euphoria she was going to let him jump this queue of men he had convinced himself she had waiting for her sexual favours . |
| 25 | The delegation left and we continued waiting until 6 p.m. when the news came through that the TUC were holding a press conference . |
| 26 | Ben stood waiting beside the door . |
| 27 | At the door Nurse Lambert stood waiting with a wheelchair — crisp , starched , bright as the April sunlight . |
| 28 | I have a picture in my mind still of endless queues of captives waiting under guard to mount the steps of the Aztec temples where the priests of Huitzilopochtli stood waiting with obsidian stone knives , hands and faces black with caked blood , their robes stiff with it , as they worked industriously to open up each human chest , extract the still-palpitating heart , offering it to their filthy god , then tossing the torn-open body back down the steps to the waiting warriors below , who hacked it into joints for the ritual cannibalism that ensured both the pleasures of the flesh and added prowess from the absorption of the captive joint into their own live bodies . |
| 29 | Lio ! rt and Liartes were already striding back across the turf to where the servants stood waiting with their mounts . |
| 30 | Quotes Kevin and Mick stood waiting on the platform . |