Example sentences of "hang [adv] [v-ing] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 's he 's a quick nimble defender Speedy was just hanging hanging on waiting for the ball to be played into him and I must confess I did n't really see anything afterwards I mean well if you look at that that does n't seem anything untoward does it ? |
| 2 | Researchers who were interested in people 's views on blood sports could either hang around waiting for respondents spontaneously to bring the subject up , or they could ask directed questions about this on a structured questionnaire , taking care to ask everybody exactly the same question . |
| 3 | I 'll never get married again , so do n't hang around waiting for it , and do n't expect to have me at your beck and call , because that is n't how I am . |
| 4 | In fact , he had hung on waiting for her to go , avoiding her . |
| 5 | Meaning if you hang on hoping for something to turn up , you invariably lose much more . |
| 6 | What sort of thing — for instance , one of the problems in some areas might be that the buses erm do n't erm that there is an insufficient bus service late in the evening , so a lot of kids hang about waiting for a bus and get into trouble waiting . |
| 7 | She smiled a faint smile for the people who hung around waiting for more drama . |
| 8 | When I left Nellie I hung about waiting for Dad 's protection but he did n't appear . |
| 9 | All this extra work could have been tackled by youngsters but , unfortunately , the Scottish schools were back and there were no children hanging around looking for something to do . |
| 10 | ‘ There is nothing worse than players hanging around waiting for the next instruction . |
| 11 | But men who 'd probably been men since the age of 14 , when they decided that school was a wank and that , rather than hanging around waiting for a dead-end job , they 'd go out and find their own way to make a living . |
| 12 | She imagined Georg happy and married to some nice girl , while she went on in this gulf of misery for the rest of her life , hanging around waiting for glimpses of Gesner , spending every night reliving every moment they had been together , all the wonderful things he had said to her , the magic of his hands when he touched her — she shivered . |
| 13 | Especially for me , having to hang around waiting for Uncle Albert to think me back into existence . ’ |
| 14 | This particular cache uses very fast static RAM to cache memory , so the processor does n't have to hang around waiting for ‘ slow ’ memory to deliver data to the processor . |
| 15 | They used to have to be brave , now they just have to hang around waiting for someone to press a button . |