Example sentences of "be waiting for a [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I believe you 're waiting for a hip replacement . ’ |
| 2 | Columbia 's payload has been waiting for a shuttle ride since nineteen eighty six . |
| 3 | They 'd been waiting for a council house for 5 years . |
| 4 | They are waiting for a kidney donor and time is running out fast ; I wonder if his faith has been weakened or strengthened . |
| 5 | As of 12 September 1991 , 200 young people in the CambsTEC area were waiting for a youth training place . |
| 6 | They were waiting for a lobster boat 's arrival in expectation of being thrown a free dinner — less work than fishing on their own account ; which about summed up life on the Keys , Trent thought . |
| 7 | And she 's saying John 's waiting for a phone call and she says , oh that 's your phone , there 's your phone call . |
| 8 | Kowalik is waiting for a telephone call from Ipswich and will come straight over if requested . |
| 9 | This process , a little like blood-grouping , is used to match tissues from a donor with the tissues of a prospective patient who is waiting for a kidney transplant . |
| 10 | Now he too was waiting for a phone call , promised for the afternoon . |
| 11 | The 35-year-old Kurd from Turkey was waiting for a routine appointment in the Croydon Immigration Office in south London when he doused himself with petrol . |