Example sentences of "[pers pn] was waiting to " in BNC.
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| 1 | One day , as I was waiting to be admitted to the prison , I heard quite a young man talking to the guard in broken but familiar Italian : it sounded like Triestino . |
| 2 | She was waiting to be moved to start her month . |
| 3 | ‘ Apparently he had a word with her while she was waiting to be taken along the line . |
| 4 | Marshall 's instant thought was that she was waiting to be picked up . |
| 5 | I wondered if he was waiting to be alone with her . |
| 6 | Last night he was waiting to be quizzed by police . |
| 7 | There was a line already forming outside the cinema for the next performance ; Gary was n't in it , but he was waiting to one side where a number of cutoff cast-iron pillars made an ideal site for leaning and lounging . |
| 8 | Sometimes they used it on him when he was waiting to be served by a barman , or even when he was just standing waiting to cross a busy street , but mostly it was when he was talking to somebody official . |