Example sentences of "[prep] waiting [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A COUPLE were celebrating their new home today after waiting for 42 years . |
| 2 | A COUPLE were celebrating their new home today after waiting for 42 years . |
| 3 | After waiting for eight weeks the guitar finally arrived . |
| 4 | The vet gave him a strong dose of painkiller , and after waiting in vain for a while to see if the pain eased , she decided to pop back into town to fetch an x-ray machine . |
| 5 | According to Mustafa Dzhemilev , leader of the Crimean Tatars ' Majlis , 600 members of the local militia on Oct. 1 forced their way into the Krasnyy Ray settlement near Alushta ( where returning Tatars had started work independently on the construction of a camp after waiting in vain for local authorities to allocate land for the purpose ) , injuring several residents and arresting 26 . |
| 6 | But Believers as yet can not praise this solution — though they have likewise despaired of waiting for political leaders to become planetary saviours . |
| 7 | It has to be said that the world would be a much better place if we just got on and did things instead of waiting for other people to do them on our behalf . |
| 8 | Robert Van Lierop of Vanuatu in the West Pacific and chairman of the group , told the delegates that nations like his ‘ do not have the luxury of waiting for conclusive proof ’ of global warming . |
| 9 | One way to reduce the problem of waiting for elusive components to arrive is to build up a stock of components . |
| 10 | There was silence at that , an air of waiting for more . |
| 11 | There are some boys and girls going away to school , their fathers and mothers filling up the moments of waiting with many injunctions in order to shut out their anxieties which their children must not see . |
| 12 | King Jammy tired of waiting in 1989 and put out half a Shabba album ‘ Rough And Rugged ’ , a ‘ clash ’ featuring six raps from Shabba and six from Chaka Demus . |
| 13 | It was worth waiting for all her life , she said . |
| 14 | Might be worth waiting for this . |
| 15 | Writing is not about waiting for spare seats at King Arthur 's table . ’ |
| 16 | There had been complaints for many years from the canal 's users , fed up with waiting in long queues at one end for the procession of boats to clear from the other ; like sitting at traffic lights that never change to green . |
| 17 | From your point of view apart from waiting for further calls from her what can the police do ? |
| 18 | A larger number of bigger girls and women were in waiting at one of the locks , where the passengers are politely informed they may walk for a mile ; they had large pitchers and small jugs , and we are all favoured with pressing invitations to have ‘ sweet milk . ’ |
| 19 | Decisions on the propriety of stocking a particular publication must depend very much on his or her own judgment and good sense , rather than on waiting for legal counsel . |
| 20 | Why she stayed on waiting for that phone call Leith could n't have said , though she thought her very large concern about paying her mortgage had something to do with it . |
| 21 | Resources which could be spent on health have been diverted to waiting for ill health and then trying to do something about it , usually with only limited effect . |
| 22 | Hungarians are used to waiting between five and ten years . |
| 23 | You must get used to waiting in this sport as it 's so dependent on weather conditions — it 's unsafe for beginners to fly in wind speeds over 15mph . |
| 24 | To paying at once , to sharing a room , to buying food for this evening , to waiting in this unpleasant parlour till she would agree to show me the room . |
| 25 | On the very day I received that letter , it was announced that opting out schools can apply for grammar school status without waiting for 5 years . |
| 26 | A much higher average might well cancel out these small variations and should be done so that a more reliable measurement would be available immediately without waiting for later processing on a mainframe . |
| 27 | This new equipment will be more automated than Abbey Hill , so the frigates will be able to bring their defences into action more quickly , without waiting for human operators to analyse the danger . |
| 28 | He went back into the flat , grabbed his coat , told an astonished Frau Nordern that he was going out for a moment and , without waiting for any protests , dashed out and joined Bodo at the foot of the stairs . |
| 29 | The latter sounded his horn impatiently , and without waiting for any sign nosed his car into the middle lane , accelerating as he did so . |
| 30 | Exactly , ’ he continued , without waiting for any answer other than the look on Ace 's face . |