Example sentences of "[noun] [subord] waiting for " in BNC.
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| 1 | He then ordered a car to call for him the next morning for a similar occasion and was felled by a stroke while waiting for the lift . |
| 2 | HIGHLY-publicised incidents of patients who die on trolleys in accident and emergency units while waiting for a hospital bed are the rare consequences of the extreme pressure under which most units work . |
| 3 | However , facing into the wind while waiting for a launch , a tyre on the wing-tip is just a convenient way of preventing the wing from lifting off the ground . |
| 4 | They range from the UK equivalent of plea bargaining to the curiosity that while Boesky , a confessed criminal , can arrange special deals with the prosecution , those charged with lesser offences have to spend three years keeping lawyers in clover while waiting for their turn at justice . |
| 5 | It appears that he had a recurring dream in which he was told , " Socrates , be an artist " , a command which he ignored at first , supposing that nothing could be a higher " art " than his own philosophizing , but eventually complied with by writing some poetry while waiting for death in prison . |
| 6 | Indeed , it is said that he composed one aria while waiting for the rice to cook . |
| 7 | Although he now had the potential earning power of any major movie star , he nevertheless remained on unemployment benefit while waiting for his agent to find the right new vehicle for him . |
| 8 | So I sat down on a chair that stood by the counter and looked around the shop while waiting for Mary to emerge from behind the colourful painted screen where she was trying things on . |
| 9 | According to Le Monde of Nov. 22 the number of asylum seekers ( who came especially from eastern Europe ) had risen to 1,700 per month , and a new law to speed the processing of asylum applications stipulated that these should be processed within two months , after which an applicant recognized as a refugee could take up provisional residence while waiting for a definitive decision . |
| 10 | At the present pace of progress in Brussels , similar changes throughout the EC may not come in for a dozen years or more , and British farmers fear that they will lose business while waiting for European competitors to catch up . |
| 11 | Yet , over the space of two days while waiting for Ryder to appear , guitarist Mark Day shows me his holiday snaps of Barbados , drummer Gaz Whelan is more preoccupied with the hassles of having a broken foot , while PD and Paul Ryder do n't so much brag as baulk at the very mention of drugs , seeming far more at home with talk of ‘ middle-eights ’ , ‘ mixing desks ’ and ‘ jamming grooves ’ . |
| 12 | Following this ritual , she was separated from Annabel while waiting for it to be decided which class she would attend first . |
| 13 | So you could have a pint while waiting for your train a Victorian version of Travellers Fare . |
| 14 | When she went into the rest room she sat down for a minute while waiting for Peggy to come out of the lavatory . |
| 15 | The appeal of microcomputers is particularly strong for those who have already defined their needs but are faced with the prospect of months ( or even years ) of delay while waiting for in-house programming resources to be made available . |
| 16 | if Frank can get some first team football in spain i guess he feels that it will be better for his career than waiting for a chance at leeds — a chance that much likely will not come up . |
| 17 | Workers could not clear the tunnels of smoke while waiting for the rescue teams to arrive . |
| 18 | Over the fell , near where Deepdale meets Dentdale , is a farm called Coventree , which , Miley Taylor told me one night in the Sun Inn , is named after a tree beneath which the hairy crones of Dentdale would hold their covens and throw eye of newt and armpit of toad into the stew while waiting for the Dales equivalent of Macbeth and Banquo to come riding out of the night . |
| 19 | Lucy held her breath while waiting for his answer . |
| 20 | Three girls lost two weeks for talking in the medicine queue whilst waiting for doses . |
| 21 | The young composer practises his scales while waiting for a big break . |
| 22 | course in Education at Southampton University while waiting for the divorce to come through , but while I like Oman , I do not feel ‘ stretched ’ in this post and also ( now I have reached the age of fifty ) miss being in England with children and family . |
| 23 | Paul Ride and Michael Wainwright made their plea while waiting for news of appeals to Iraq 's Supreme Court . |
| 24 | Sarah Hunt , 74 , was left soaked in blood after holding her sister for at least 25 minutes while waiting for an ambulance to arrive after the tragedy in Bishop Auckland . |
| 25 | DARLINGTON Memorial Hospital managers are still investigating claims that a 90year-old woman was forgotten for three hours while waiting for an operation . |
| 26 | There was the famous occasion when he picked at a wall behind a bus stop while waiting for a bus and found a rare specimen fossil ; and the occasion when he cut his leg while climbing a rockface at Craigleith Quarry and failed to notice it until his Wellington boot was full of blood , whereupon he drove to the nearest hospital for stitches and a transfusion . |
| 27 | He could n't afford another scandal while waiting for trial . |
| 28 | Rubbing shoulders with this aggressively 20th century lifestyle , are the traditions of the majority indigenous Indian population , who forced out of their villages by drought and unemployment to seek work in the city , have established their own communities and their own markets where they come to buy and sell potatoes and cornmeal and where the Fortune-teller sits playing his chanrango while waiting for his next customer . |
| 29 | For John Prescot today , not a discrete silence while waiting for the leader 's call , he was making it clear that he wanted a swap to one of the top economic jobs . |
| 30 | He disappeared from a parking lot while waiting for a Mafia contact , from where flashbacks of his past are reconstructed . |