Example sentences of "[adv] waiting in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Half an hour later , Jamie Shepherd , who had been patiently waiting in the hospital foyer , drove his granddaughter home . |
| 2 | At any one time there were three hundred people patiently waiting in the most appalling weather . |
| 3 | Peter Noonan has been patiently waiting in the wings for six years , and finally , whether it was seeing Terry so happy , realising that she was n't getting any younger , or the fact that I told her I was thinking of getting married , sh — ’ |
| 4 | When Mrs Grandison had rejoined them it was still not quite half-past two , but Mark came in to say that as everybody was already waiting in the hall and it would be difficult to restrain them from buying things much longer , the bazaar might as well be opened immediately . |
| 5 | ‘ No , it 's just that my sister 's going out , ’ she says , as she picks up the various plastic carrier bags already waiting in the hall . |
| 6 | Meanwhile still waiting in the wings are the Cameron 's management buy-out team and Sunderland brewers Vaux . |
| 7 | This approach to treatment , strong in the nineteenth century and all but eclipsed in the twentieth , is still waiting in the wings . |
| 8 | Outside in the street , still waiting in the cold wind were the friends , neighbours and complete strangers who had come to show their support for the families . |
| 9 | NICK HASTED investigates the often perilous journey from printed page to silver screen , reveals a few stories still waiting in the wings — and dares film-makers to have a crack at some of literature 's more , erm , cerebral delights … |
| 10 | Ralph was still waiting in the doorway . |
| 11 | UK , Cambridge-based IXI Ltd has reportedly cut a deal for that ever mysterious Sparc follower , HaL Computer Systems — whose range of OLTP machines are still waiting in the wings to be introduced — to standardize on its X.desktop interface . |
| 12 | He had no doubt that , mentally , most of the group now waiting in the library to be interviewed were following his actions almost to the minute . |
| 13 | McGibbon is one of a group of talented teenagers now waiting in the wings — Darren Patterson ( Crystal Palace ) , Keith Gillespie ( Mancheser United ) , Stephen Lomas ( Manchester City ) , John Morrow ( Rangers ) and Barry Hunter ( Wrexham ) to name a few . |
| 14 | He saw me standing there waiting in the warm light from the cafe and hesitated a second , then walked on a few paces , then stopped and looked back . |
| 15 | In theory , it is a simple matter to overthrow a wilting strongman and replace him with a civilian president conveniently waiting in the wings . |