Example sentences of "[verb] [be] waiting on " in BNC.
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| 1 | If someone had valuables hidden in the hypocaust , he must have been waiting on thorns for the chance to get his hoard away , and baulked all day by staff and visitors wandering around . |
| 2 | ‘ They should have been waiting on Victoria station , checking each train that came in . ’ |
| 3 | Everyone had been waiting on tenterhooks on the platform , as they had been technically ready for more than a day . |
| 4 | She had been waiting on Dreadnought to watch the water coming in through the main leak . |
| 5 | Essentially those who felt themselves to be excluded from power decided to support a perfectly plausible claimant to the throne who had been waiting on the sidelines for such a following to materialize . |
| 6 | On her return , Michel had been waiting on the platform with a gun in his hand but could not bring himself to shoot . |
| 7 | So I mean she 's been waiting on that erm place down Junction Road but they , you know , we 've had nothing from . |