Example sentences of "[noun] [be] waiting with " in BNC.

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1 As I pull up at the back of the hotel Mr Shah is waiting with a folder full ; his expression , although friendly , contains around his mouth a little reproach that I should have been away from the action for so long .
2 Mrs Patten was waiting with a grave face , and he could tell at once that she knew .
3 Throughout industry this election day , a host of trade unionists are waiting with acute anxiety , nursing their hopes : a Labour victory will enable them to reassert their influence on factories throughout the land , in a manner that has been impossible for a decade .
4 After that we embraced and , with tears pouring down our cheeks , we were made to go outside , where a lorry was waiting with other villagers in it .
5 Buff was waiting with my mother .
6 However , the recording secretary was waiting with the minutes of the last meeting , and Mrs Murphy announced her .
7 He landed the plane himself and taxied it over to where President and Mrs Sadat were waiting with a guard of honour , a twenty-one-gun salute , a military band to play the national anthems of Iran and Egypt , and a red carpet .
8 IN THE small Devon town of South Molton , Julie Widlake is waiting with anticipation for Friday 20 October .
9 Sapt was waiting with the horses and seconds later we were on our way home .
10 Charlotte thanked him and passed through the barrier into the station yard where a uniformed coachman was waiting with a trim little gig to take her to meet the Hon Mrs Anderson-Hunt .
11 After he left the sisters , Corbett went out to the stable yard where Ranulf and Maltote were waiting with the two retainers from the porter 's lodge .
12 The tables are turning now , though , with even George Bush making TV advertisements to remind us that The Big Country is waiting with open tills for our holiday spending money .
13 COMMERCIAL viewdata services aimed at domestic customers are starting up in the US later this year , but it is not clear that the public is waiting with bated breath .
14 Then , there was nothing else to be done except get back to work in the cutting room at Paramount where he was working around the clock on The Two Jakes , for which the world of movie entertainment was waiting with bated breath ; because even though all of the above makes fascinating reading for everyone intrigued by Hollywood 's pop royalty , especially one so colourful and mercurial as Nicholson , it is the mere trivia , the overcoat of gloss and glitz , that hides the real Jack Nicholson …
15 At home-time , a different driver was waiting with another coach , so there were no trainers under the back seat .
16 Rosa showed him into the living-room , where Luce was waiting with mixed feelings .
17 The two men were taken across the muir to Priesthill , where Isabel was waiting with her children in front of the cottage .
18 The royal purveyor was waiting with fresh mounts ; the King 's white horse , Tamesin , was already saddled , and his Grace left immediately with Seton .
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