Example sentences of "[be] waiting on [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had been waiting on Dreadnought to watch the water coming in through the main leak . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 5 | Runs off with the money , comes back to this country thinking he 's safe after ten years , changes his name perhaps , than you announce he 'll be waiting on Sir Thomas down here . |
| 6 | Some were waiting for spare parts from Cairo , some were waiting on instructions from their owners , some were going downriver . |
| 7 | Like everybody else , Sequent is waiting on Pentium deliveries from Intel , now not expected much before the end of the year . |
| 8 | Like everybody else , Sequent is waiting on Pentium deliveries from Intel , now not expected much before the end of the year . |
| 9 | He was waiting on God 's will . |