Example sentences of "waiting for [pron] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Actual guides were waiting for them on the Scots side , from the Graham tower , producing a grim smile from Douglas , for one of his principal headaches as Keeper of Liddesdale was apt to be the inroads and cross-border raiding of these same Grahams , Kirkandrews prominent . |
| 2 | The gardener was waiting for them at the front door . |
| 3 | There would be no tall good-looking man waiting for them at the Secret Cove and , once there , she found the Place was , indeed , deserted . |
| 4 | Duncan trotted back with him and , sure enough , Mother dinosaur was waiting for them with a big smile on her face . |
| 5 | Maggie burst into tears at the sight of the house and the small familiar crowd waiting for her outside the wooden gate of the garden . |
| 6 | Her father was in the anteroom , waiting for her with a dour face and uneasy eyes , but so closely attended by page and chamberlain that barely a word beyond her submissive greeting and his mumbled acknowledgement , phrased as a blessing but uttered like a malediction , was able to pass between them . |
| 7 | She went upstairs and slung her bikini bottoms in a bag , along with her suntan oil and a towel , and ran downstairs , to find him waiting for her by the front door . |
| 8 | It was getting late and her youngest child , Tudor , who had accompanied her to the funeral , and was now waiting for her in the local hotel , would be growing anxious . |
| 9 | they were waiting for her in the old house : Louise , her mother , her aunt Bella and her grandmother , Irena . |
| 10 | Georgi Kirov was waiting for him at the appointed place and time . |
| 11 | Cranston was waiting for him at the small tavern just outside Aldgate in the Portsoken overlooking the stinking city ditch . |
| 12 | She told me that just across the road there lived what she described as a mantenuta , a kept woman , whose lover visited her every day : she could be seen waiting for him behind the semi-closed shutters . |
| 13 | When he arrived at work that morning the result of their labours was waiting for him in a blue folder . |
| 14 | After Charlie had finished dressing , he found Sal and Kitty waiting for him by the front door , but he refused to allow them to accompany him to the station , despite their tearful protest . |
| 15 | ‘ I 've been waiting for you for the past three hours , pacing the corridors , wearing out the carpet . |
| 16 | We must , surely , eventually get to recovery , but we have been waiting for it for a long time . |
| 17 | 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 ? ’ |
| 18 | But after the marriage and the party , when it was time , the brougham was already waiting for us at the front door , I could n't bear to leave . |