Example sentences of "[noun sg] [was/were] waiting for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ranulf the rat-catcher was waiting for him just outside the door , a sleek , well-fed Bonaventure in his hands . |
| 2 | The mail was waiting for us . |
| 3 | I caught up with them about 3.30pm in Jackson Bridge where they were finishing a hymn , and possibly a silent prayer , before they marched back up the steep winding hill to Hepworth where a free tea was waiting for them in the school . |
| 4 | Oliver and Tim were talking together , Cobalt was waiting for his prey . |
| 5 | Jonadab was waiting for her at the stair bottom . |
| 6 | Dalziel 's car was waiting for him by the exit . |
| 7 | He was waiting for her outside and wasted little time in virtually hustling her outside to where his car was waiting for them . |
| 8 | And the killer was waiting for Trent 's explanation . |
| 9 | They smiled at each other , and Sara felt as if she was balanced on the brink of some great truth , that the world outside the window was waiting for her too , opening up , spreading out into the darkness . |
| 10 | At Clara 's house Magwitch was waiting for us , wrapped in a dark cloak . |
| 11 | The Management was waiting for me in the lounge of his magnificent suite . |
| 12 | Green was waiting for them , not only to give them lessons but also to sell them additional colours specially to represent the true Lake District tints . |
| 13 | Johnny Boy was waiting for someone to pull into his driveway . |
| 14 | They went downstairs and the old lady was waiting for them in the hall . |
| 15 | They were even more uncomfortable when their father entered with Rose just as the full hall was waiting for the curtain to go up . |
| 16 | Eventually Karl was released and the deportation order lifted on a promise by the RCM that accommodation and a job were waiting for him . |
| 17 | Now that there is one , it 's a little late to get hysterical — better to accept the consolation that the animal has integrated itself into the landscape , almost as if a place was waiting for it . |
| 18 | He said he had been assured that a hospital place was waiting for him in Leicestershire . |
| 19 | Indoors , the afternoon post was waiting for her . |
| 20 | The scarlet execution cart was waiting for us , the skulls of hanged men decorating each side . |
| 21 | Rune was waiting for her in the foyer as she stepped out of the lift . |
| 22 | She knew he would kiss her and her whole body was waiting for it , every nerve-end coiled in fierce anticipation as his free hand slid round to the back of her head , holding her there , as he looked down into her face . |
| 23 | It 's as if the name were waiting for the man , and for the novel which will transpersonalize or socialize the murderous concept : ‘ social unsteadiness , as Shatov says ’ and as we read in the Possessed notebooks . |
| 24 | The gardener was waiting for them at the front door . |
| 25 | Benedicta was waiting for them , seated before a roaring fire ; beside her on the ground , crouched like a little dog , sat Orme , one of Watkin the dung-collector 's sons . |
| 26 | The yellow and purple taxi was waiting for him . |
| 27 | The wench was waiting for me in the street . |
| 28 | For they knew perfectly well that Lothar was waiting for one thing to happen before engaging in battle : one thing which would make him too feel he could win . |
| 29 | He thought that the Robemaker was waiting for him to do so ; perhaps somehow to indicate that he would ask for mercy , but he had done nothing . |
| 30 | The following morning , as I arrived at work , the watchman was waiting for me . |