Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] waiting [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 's he 's a quick nimble defender Speedy was just hanging hanging on waiting for the ball to be played into him and I must confess I did n't really see anything afterwards I mean well if you look at that that does n't seem anything untoward does it ? |
| 2 | Paula picked up her try and moved aside waiting for him , flushed with pleasure at seeing a familiar face . |
| 3 | Any decent sized salmon would be bound to show itself as it moved around waiting for the next tide to free it . |
| 4 | Researchers who were interested in people 's views on blood sports could either hang around waiting for respondents spontaneously to bring the subject up , or they could ask directed questions about this on a structured questionnaire , taking care to ask everybody exactly the same question . |
| 5 | I 'll never get married again , so do n't hang around waiting for it , and do n't expect to have me at your beck and call , because that is n't how I am . |
| 6 | Your dramatic gestures will certainly mesmerize them , but they will be staring apprehensively at the glass , or laughing hysterically waiting for it to fall ! |
| 7 | In fact , he had hung on waiting for her to go , avoiding her . |
| 8 | order was heard still waiting for her word |
| 9 | We want three hundred people by the end of this year because the business we 've already got just waiting to be done in phenomenal . |
| 10 | Drawn up waiting for them were their friends : the men landed early that morning by their companion ships at the mouth of the Leven . |
| 11 | If you just stand around waiting for the enemy to come to you then of course your ladz will get bored , and naturally they 'll start to get a bit fractious , then inevitably they 'll end up failing an Animosity test probably just when you do n't want them to . |
| 12 | What sort of thing — for instance , one of the problems in some areas might be that the buses erm do n't erm that there is an insufficient bus service late in the evening , so a lot of kids hang about waiting for a bus and get into trouble waiting . |
| 13 | Your poor visitors had come miles , had to wait to be taken from the prison gate to the gym , and then had to queue up waiting to hand in a bunch of flowers or something trivial , and then it all had to be signed for , then the screws came over to your table and you had to sign for it . |
| 14 | Timed out waiting for DC … to be agreed |
| 15 | Timed out waiting for LIFESPAN mail message … check manually |
| 16 | She smiled a faint smile for the people who hung around waiting for more drama . |
| 17 | When I left Nellie I hung about waiting for Dad 's protection but he did n't appear . |
| 18 | Should we then insist that it is all SEGLAB 's fault and sit back waiting for it to improve ? |
| 19 | Well I think the only difference is I say to her I hope you 're still cos she said to me you can come , I said I 'm coming straight round yours christmas day , I 'm not coming home waiting for you to come back , you do n't come till half past ten ! |
| 20 | If you were last the food would be cold , because it all used to be laid out waiting for you to collect . |
| 21 | sit here waiting for it |
| 22 | Old people are , of course , entitled to the same social courtesies as we are , and it can be very irritating for them if they are made to feel that they are regarded as has-beens who have nothing better to do than to sit around waiting to be visited at our convenience . |
| 23 | ‘ There is nothing worse than players hanging around waiting for the next instruction . |
| 24 | But men who 'd probably been men since the age of 14 , when they decided that school was a wank and that , rather than hanging around waiting for a dead-end job , they 'd go out and find their own way to make a living . |
| 25 | She imagined Georg happy and married to some nice girl , while she went on in this gulf of misery for the rest of her life , hanging around waiting for glimpses of Gesner , spending every night reliving every moment they had been together , all the wonderful things he had said to her , the magic of his hands when he touched her — she shivered . |
| 26 | They sit around waiting for Daryl . |
| 27 | Yeah well I did n't wan na have to sit here waiting for you , cos I know you every time you say oh so and so |
| 28 | It will go on waiting for you until the day you enter it . |
| 29 | The lifeboat then lay off waiting for the tug . |
| 30 | Bits of Meccano lay around waiting to be pilfered if I 'd had the courage . |