Example sentences of "[be] waiting [prep] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I expect you 're waiting for Mr Right , ’ said the woman to Rachaela . |
| 2 | If you 're stuck overseas for the night , or if you 're waiting in UK overnight and an early departure has been ruled out , we provide whatever accommodation we can , and take you to it . |
| 3 | A Piper Chieftain , belonging to UNACO , had been waiting at Orly Airport to fly them on to Strasbourg . |
| 4 | A ship containing 800 tonnes of food , fuel and medicines sent by the ICRC had been waiting off Mogadishu 's docks , unable to unload , since early November . |
| 5 | ‘ They should have been waiting on Victoria station , checking each train that came in . ’ |
| 6 | The government had already agreed to meeting Unita this week and the UN had been waiting for Unita to set the date , UN officials said . |
| 7 | Phoebe woke up quickly , as though she had been waiting for Maggie 's summons , but not quickly enough . |
| 8 | She 'd been waiting for Christine , but Christine had n't come . |
| 9 | Until then he had , like Law before him , been waiting for Mckenna . |
| 10 | England have been waiting for Chris Lewis to establish himself as a genuine allrounder since he made his debut in 1990 . |
| 11 | She had been waiting for Silas to assert himself and knew that sooner or later an outburst of authority must come from him . |
| 12 | Jessamy had been thinking about it while she had been waiting for Julius to return with the blankets , and she thought she knew the answer . |
| 13 | One day in the shop she 'd been waiting for Malcolm 's girlfriend and partner , Vivienne Westwood — they 'd been planning to go somewhere but Vivienne had n't turned up , she 'd phoned to tell this American girl that . |
| 14 | On the day on which the Secretary of State gave a pledge to his party conference that everyone would have equal access to free health care , I was contacted by a constituent , Mr. Ronnie Watson , who had been waiting since September 1990 for an appointment with a consultant to discuss a possible hip operation and had just been told that he would have to wait until some unspecified date in 1992 . |
| 15 | He said : ‘ We have been waiting since April for the sentence but another man could do this . |
| 16 | Marjorie Thomas , 35 , who has been waiting since August 1989 for surgery on an eye condition , said the claims are no consolation . |
| 17 | ‘ While you are waiting for God to write it down for you in capital letters , ’ Anna had shouted finally , exasperated out of all diplomacy , ‘ I shall decide for you both . |
| 18 | Some are waiting for God to express an opinion . |
| 19 | If you are waiting for God to suddenly send some new blessings , you 'll wait for eternity ! |
| 20 | Rangers are waiting for Keegan to come back with an improved offer after rejecting a staggering £3.3m bid , and Keegan could offer transfer-listed Franz Carr as the makeweight in a new player-cash deal . |
| 21 | WHILE you are waiting for Andrew Morton 's book on Princess Diana , Lady Colin Campbell offers her slightly less rough portrait in DIANA IN PRIVATE ( Warner , £5.99 ) . |
| 22 | The penultimate saga of the Entebbe Four ( ‘ Chimpanzees on the run ’ , October ) is that they have been repatriated from Hungary to Uganda , where they are waiting in Entebbe Zoo to move to a semi-wild setting in their native land , courtesy of the Jane Goodall Institute . |
| 23 | I am waiting for Maggie to notice me . |
| 24 | I am waiting for Tom Fairfax . |
| 25 | I 'm waiting for Bedge . |
| 26 | I 'm waiting for Terry come down |
| 27 | ‘ I 'm waiting for Catherine — Sergeant Crane . ’ |
| 28 | I 'm waiting for Tesco 's to foreclose on what they said they were gon na do . |
| 29 | I do n't know I do n't know this is why I 'm waiting for Brian to come back . |
| 30 | I 'm waiting at Charing Cross station and I 'm wrongly dressed in a black hat and coat , whereas I should have come in jeans and a heavy Shetland jumper . |