Example sentences of "[noun sg] waiting for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I stay in my corner like a boxer waiting for the bell . |
| 2 | As they stood patiently in a doorway waiting for the column to pass , Catherine turned to say something to McLeish and he looked down at her for a long moment . |
| 3 | Ann Thwaite , in her biography Waiting for the Party , suggests the relevance to The Lost Prince of a certain incident in October 1913 . |
| 4 | The result was that four travellers were now sitting in the airport terminal waiting for the next flight , which was probably full anyway . |
| 5 | One experienced considerable anxiety waiting for the result of the venous creatine kinase test because there was a family history of Duchenne muscular dystrophy on the maternal father 's side . |
| 6 | " One day you come up here it 's a dustbowl , the next its a quagmire , " said a truck-driver waiting for the Indian-Pacific to arrive in Port Augusta . |
| 7 | Nobody sits at home waiting for the next assignment . |
| 8 | The Sheikh had crossed them by camel as a boy ; then as a young man with a wife and small children , including the boy at my side , he had camped overnight on one side of the range waiting for the engines of his jeeps to cool before grinding inch by inch , around and over . |
| 9 | I await the first sighting of this crucial volume with the awed anticipation of a Crusader waiting for the Holy Grail to arrive through the post . |
| 10 | The thunder was continuous and the heavens opened up so , nowhere to go , we were huddled in the tent waiting for the river to rise . |
| 11 | We sat for about an hour waiting for the bargemen to wake . |
| 12 | Fakrid and Jinkwa had spent an anxious hour waiting for the Doctor . |
| 13 | an hour waiting for the bus |
| 14 | Tenderly , she laid the first few bundles in the pail and sat back on her heels , blackened fingers curled , like a housewife waiting for the stove to light . |
| 15 | She had been in her cottage waiting for the return of Tom and Carrie when a villager ran past shouting news of the fire and she had turned out to help . |
| 16 | I stood in the kitchen waiting for the water to heat up with a distinct feeling of eco-smugness . |
| 17 | If ever there was a place waiting for the missionary preachings of the energy efficiency industry it must be there . |
| 18 | She was , at this moment , like a slave on a podium waiting for the bid . |
| 19 | The cheapest and most practical method was for the shikari to sit out over a tethered bait in a tree hide or machan waiting for the tiger to appear . |
| 20 | You will see groups of them clustered way out beyond the breaking surf waiting for the best waves . |
| 21 | Sitting in this seamy room one evening waiting for the meeting to begin , I was startled by my friend exclaiming , ‘ My God , there 's a man coming up the stairs . ’ |
| 22 | We had such happy family holidays in the drizzle waiting for the sun to try and come out that it seemed churlish to spoil things with science . |
| 23 | ‘ No point waiting for the goo to melt . |
| 24 | Tom and Peter and Peter 's new friend Jay were standing on the platform waiting for the southbound Jubilee train . |
| 25 | Cecilia went down the steps at West Hampstead station and stood on the lefthand platform waiting for the train to come down from Kilburn . |
| 26 | WHEN actors say they are ‘ resting ’ it does n't necessarily mean that they are lying on the sofa all day waiting for the phone to ring . |
| 27 | But he sat there three hours on the motorway waiting for the bloody A A man to find him and , apparently he did n't find it , could n't find him sa cos he rang back he said , look there 's no one come yet ! |
| 28 | It was too late in the year for daffodils and tulips but there were a few cardboard boxes of cut flowers stacked on a trolley waiting for the Peterborough train . |
| 29 | They 'd kept him in a kiosk on Brighton front day and night waiting for the Germans to invade . |
| 30 | The Lawrence 's lie awake at night waiting for the sounds of breaking glass from next door . |