Example sentences of "[verb] waiting [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm sat waiting for mine , ordered yesterday . |
| 2 | It would be highly intelligent to take in the situation instantaneously and choose to stand waiting for death ; but that would be not a reaction but a deliberate act . |
| 3 | Easier to have a go than lie waiting for doom in the dark among additional hazards . |
| 4 | The idea of travelling between areas to take advantage of shorter waiting times appears to have some public support as Leathard ( 1990 ) quotes a survey which suggests that 40 per cent of people would go anywhere in the country to avoid waiting for treatment . |
| 5 | Mr Lang also told the grand committee that figures due out this week , covering the year to December 1992 , would show marked improvements in the length of time National Health Service patients spent waiting for treatment ; a record number of patients and that the Government was on course to meet the guarantee that virtually no-one would have to wait more than 18 months for treatment . |
| 6 | ‘ I 'd go again today if it did n't mean waiting in line till a month from Monday , ’ said USA Today reviewer Mike Clark . |
| 7 | I kept waiting in dread for someone to tap you on the shoulder and say , ‘ By the way , you know Damian is chairman of Flint Investments International ! ’ ’ |
| 8 | No half day Saturdays , half day Saturdays , yes and then er I , I used to stay waiting for mother to come and my sister er to do the shopping in Willenhall cos they would n't shop anywhere else , and then erm my brother used to come with his cycle and er I used to carry a lot of the shopping back and my brother used to push a lot on his , on his cycle and mother and my sister used to stay down and have another walk around , but we 'd got to walk it back I 'd come back on the wagonette so or just after the buses started but er I 'll never forget the first time the bus ran it was pouring with rain and my sister was standing in front of me and she 'd got a new mac on and of course we were getting very wet and there was a scramble to get on the bus and the lady in front of her had got a bag of flour and of course the bag burst and went all down her |
| 9 | I have a picture in my mind still of endless queues of captives waiting under guard to mount the steps of the Aztec temples where the priests of Huitzilopochtli stood waiting with obsidian stone knives , hands and faces black with caked blood , their robes stiff with it , as they worked industriously to open up each human chest , extract the still-palpitating heart , offering it to their filthy god , then tossing the torn-open body back down the steps to the waiting warriors below , who hacked it into joints for the ritual cannibalism that ensured both the pleasures of the flesh and added prowess from the absorption of the captive joint into their own live bodies . |
| 10 | Once there I handed out the packs and sat waiting for approval . |
| 11 | Keith said : ‘ The less time company chiefs spend waiting for information , interpreting it and then debating whether it 's right or not , the more they can devote to deciding what action needs to be taken . |