Example sentences of "and waiting for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was not a simple matter of carrying out fieldwork , thinking about the results , publishing them , and waiting for peer review to ensure the next research grant . |
| 2 | … once the CNAA even began to lend its support to this development , there literally was a kind of explosion , and plainly institutions had been looking and waiting for validation in this field … |
| 3 | What can you gain from sitting behind a desk making and waiting for telephone calls , going from game to game watching players you already know about ? ’ |
| 4 | The initial allocation of franchises in 1954 , then , was absolutely not a matter of the ITA folding its arms and waiting for consortia to spring fully formed before it . |
| 5 | Part of the problem has been the software , which has been looking for a decent hardware platform and waiting for support from a mainstream operating system vendor . |
| 6 | Cummings ( 29 ) missed most of last season through injury — but he 's fully fit again and waiting for offers . |
| 7 | Her cuts were treated , her bruises examined , and then she and the two children sat in the lounge of one of the private wards , sipping tea and waiting for Bodie to come and pick them up . |
| 8 | There was a queue of customers chattering by the door and waiting for places . |
| 9 | I sipped from a wineskin , remembering Mathilda 's warm charms and waiting for Sir John to come . |
| 10 | The Danish butter freighter was in dock , and along the river wall laden barges were moored and waiting for daylight . |
| 11 | ‘ The speed with which some of the incidents flared up suggests , in fact , that the kids were not sitting indoors , but that they were already out there on the streets — often bored , resentful and waiting for trouble ’ ( ibid.:46 ) . |
| 12 | The following year was spent serving the Church at QP and waiting for God . |
| 13 | Hermione Lee pinpoints what I feel about this novel — that although its subject is depression and waiting for death , it does not feel gloomy because of its own formal delight , its interest in language , including the contrasted languages of the sophisticated ‘ writer ’ , the Professor , a historian of the European exploration of America , and Tom Outland , the indigenous traveller , discovering the primeval inhabitants , but teaching himself to read Virgil , and thus exploring in the other direction . |
| 14 | Roy , 62 , said : ‘ We were fed up sitting down and waiting for people . |
| 15 | Meanwhile , Philippe Bonard had emerged from the house and was greeting Iris and her group , now installed in the mini-bus and waiting for Gebrec to drive them . |