Example sentences of "[noun] waiting for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I stay in my corner like a boxer waiting for the bell . |
| 2 | These characteristics lead to a generally well-controlled and efficient method of production , whose main disadvantage is the time-delay caused by the queueing effect of individual units waiting for the batch to be completed before moving on to the next operation . |
| 3 | As they stood patiently in a doorway waiting for the column to pass , Catherine turned to say something to McLeish and he looked down at her for a long moment . |
| 4 | Ann Thwaite , in her biography Waiting for the Party , suggests the relevance to The Lost Prince of a certain incident in October 1913 . |
| 5 | She clapped her hands over her ears waiting for the water that was almost upon them , aware of the damage it was going to cause . |
| 6 | Bored GIs waiting for the war with Iraq to begin whiled away the time with fellow female soldiers . |
| 7 | Bored GIs waiting for the war with Iraq to begin whiled away the time with fellow female soldiers . |
| 8 | The result was that four travellers were now sitting in the airport terminal waiting for the next flight , which was probably full anyway . |
| 9 | One experienced considerable anxiety waiting for the result of the venous creatine kinase test because there was a family history of Duchenne muscular dystrophy on the maternal father 's side . |
| 10 | There are many big sharks waiting for the wee Minister to announce the terms of these sales . |
| 11 | Grant got the impression that Larsen must have been waiting for his signal , like a sprinter crouched in his blocks waiting for the starter 's gun to launch him into motion . |
| 12 | " One day you come up here it 's a dustbowl , the next its a quagmire , " said a truck-driver waiting for the Indian-Pacific to arrive in Port Augusta . |
| 13 | Nobody sits at home waiting for the next assignment . |
| 14 | The Sheikh had crossed them by camel as a boy ; then as a young man with a wife and small children , including the boy at my side , he had camped overnight on one side of the range waiting for the engines of his jeeps to cool before grinding inch by inch , around and over . |
| 15 | They were desert folk waiting for the bus . |
| 16 | I await the first sighting of this crucial volume with the awed anticipation of a Crusader waiting for the Holy Grail to arrive through the post . |
| 17 | Over the porch was a wooden pointed hood with scalloped edges , to keep off the rain , presumably from the heads of visitors waiting for the door to be opened . |
| 18 | It blended in beautifully with the rubbish bags and empty bottles waiting for the refuse men , but with my luck they 'd probably arrive before I could collect it . |
| 19 | The thunder was continuous and the heavens opened up so , nowhere to go , we were huddled in the tent waiting for the river to rise . |
| 20 | We sat for about an hour waiting for the bargemen to wake . |
| 21 | Fakrid and Jinkwa had spent an anxious hour waiting for the Doctor . |
| 22 | an hour waiting for the bus |
| 23 | ‘ Yesterday morning , ’ began Juliet , ‘ when we were both on Hunter Ward waiting for the doctor to finish talking to Mum . ’ |
| 24 | Tenderly , she laid the first few bundles in the pail and sat back on her heels , blackened fingers curled , like a housewife waiting for the stove to light . |
| 25 | When I returned to the laibon 's village with the paperwork , he was looking out towards Ol Doinyo Lengai waiting for the sound and the dust and the cries of his cattle coming back . |
| 26 | By now the Arab with my coat would be in Malaga waiting for the boat across to Africa . |
| 27 | Or are you just gritting your teeth waiting for the neighbours to turn the stereo on full blast or start a spot of DIY ? |
| 28 | She had been in her cottage waiting for the return of Tom and Carrie when a villager ran past shouting news of the fire and she had turned out to help . |
| 29 | I stood in the kitchen waiting for the water to heat up with a distinct feeling of eco-smugness . |
| 30 | One leads up an unfrequented glen occupied by wild goats and skirts the northern flank of Beinn Fhada to arrive at a rough bealach or col , where I once shivered for two hours waiting for the mist to lift off Sgurr nan Ceathreamhnan ahead , which it did not . |