Example sentences of "[adv] waiting [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ideally , you would be better waiting until the end of the year before selling and buying . |
| 2 | ‘ What 's life , ’ he said with a pessimism that fed Richard 's gloom , ‘ only waiting for the end . ’ |
| 3 | Agnes is only waiting for the guest to start speaking his reason for coming . |
| 4 | He was only waiting for a chance . |
| 5 | He also alleged that the KGB had recruited hundreds of British traitors who were only waiting for the signal from Moscow to begin destroying Britain 's communication system and military establishments around the country . |
| 6 | They dreamed together their first dream of life : of its glories and its fame , of the life that lay beyond the prison walls of this school and beyond this miserable town , which to despise was their delight , of the life that must open up soon before them , that was only waiting for the two of them in order to receive them and shower them with its infinite gifts ! |
| 7 | ‘ Only waiting for a taxi . ’ |
| 8 | He made friends easily though he occasionally collected the odd hanger-on who I felt sure was only waiting for a Sheikhly hand-out . |
| 9 | The British government was only waiting for the ECJ to rule ( and its decision was not unexpected ) before reforming the Shops Act . |
| 10 | Every girl in New York who is not a singer is only waiting for the right break to come along so she can get to be one . |
| 11 | Life was a slow , blissful progress towards an unnamed but predecided climax which we both realized was there , only waiting for us to reach it . |
| 12 | She did not seem at a loss , only waiting for some boring and pointless noise to end . |
| 13 | ‘ She was only waiting for the kids to grow up and then she said she 'd leave me . |
| 14 | " It 's a celebration , " said Nenna , coming up to the hatch , " they 're only waiting for you to come . |
| 15 | I came out of the forces , he was only waiting for the time that I came out , for him to retire . |
| 16 | He 's [ the killer 's companion ] only waiting for a knock on the door , ’ Mr Brown said . |
| 17 | He 's [ the killer 's companion ] only waiting for a knock on the door , ’ Mr Brown added . |
| 18 | I thought bloody hell Lynn you 're only waiting for fifty P , you know ? |
| 19 | At its best the combination is uniquely potent — a controlled conflagration which almost scorches the ear , a sense of communicative intensity not as an optional extra , or even as something to be striven for , but as a constant presence , only waiting to be channelled in the right direction . |
| 20 | TopLog says it is only waiting on Univel to get its stuff out of the door and was originally set to go this month . |
| 21 | His eyes kept looking away over one of my shoulders or the other , never meeting my gaze , and I got the impression that like his wife he was constantly waiting for something important to happen , expecting someone to arrive at any moment , as though they both could n't believe what had happened and it was all a dream or a ghastly joke and they were just waiting for Clare to come gangling through the front door , kicking off muddy green wellies and loudly demanding tea . |
| 22 | At home we 'd be constantly waiting for windows in the weather . |
| 23 | However , in parliamentary terms Mr Nelson has been long waiting for a call from a prime minister offering jobs . |
| 24 | As a general rule , when the demand for a resource is such that it is allocated for two thirds of the available time , then programs spend twice as long waiting for the resource as using it . |
| 25 | He hesitated , perhaps waiting for Peter politely to disagree . |
| 26 | He was still motionless , standing at the edge of the wood , perhaps waiting for them to leave . |
| 27 | perhaps waiting for all the kids to school first perhaps ca n't see to do it in the dark |
| 28 | The spider may be on the web , perhaps waiting in one corner of it for a fly to become caught . |
| 29 | Other may sit there stubbornly waiting for you to tell them what they are meant to do whilst making it abundantly clear that the session is hardly welcome , indeed is being conducted almost under duress . |
| 30 | ( One of the originators once told me that his memory of the first few weeks of the organization was of people literally waiting in turn to answer the phone every time it rang . ) |