Example sentences of "while wait for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In between minor television roles , in series like ‘ Divorce Court ’ , Jack took to practising script writing for a time , while waiting for work . |
| 2 | While waiting for Surkov to arrive , Sergei spoke of the need to move the story on realistically and swiftly . |
| 3 | We are then taken on a tour of the factory while waiting for lunch . |
| 4 | Some travel companies have business centres at major airports where scurrying executives can make use of work stations , business machines , meeting-rooms and secretarial services , while waiting for flights . |
| 5 | Yet , over the space of two days while waiting for Ryder to appear , guitarist Mark Day shows me his holiday snaps of Barbados , drummer Gaz Whelan is more preoccupied with the hassles of having a broken foot , while PD and Paul Ryder do n't so much brag as baulk at the very mention of drugs , seeming far more at home with talk of ‘ middle-eights ’ , ‘ mixing desks ’ and ‘ jamming grooves ’ . |
| 6 | When she went into the rest room she sat down for a minute while waiting for Peggy to come out of the lavatory . |
| 7 | He could n't afford another scandal while waiting for trial . |
| 8 | In the case of the Kobuk Eskimos their object in working jade , which they even carried on while waiting for caribou to cross the river , was to obtain a ready supply of trade goods . |
| 9 | While waiting for passengers , it 's out with his sketchpad and on with his favourite pastime — painting . |
| 10 | Coroner — Inquest — Duty to hold — Deceased having severe asthma attack — Deceased suffering cardiac arrest while waiting for ambulance — Post mortem showing death by natural causes — Possibility of delay in arrival of ambulance contributing to death — Whether reason to suspect that death ‘ unnatural ’ — Whether coroner 's duty to investigate death conflicting with rule against determining civil liability — Coroners Act 1988 ( c. 13 ) , ss. 8(1) , 11(5) — Coroners Rules 1984 ( S.I . |
| 11 | While waiting for Mr Knightley to arrive , the rest of us were invited to tour the grounds , and so it was that I and about ten others led off to the banks of the River Avon by a ruthlessly hearty philanthropist extraordinaire , Lady Patricia Rutherford . |
| 12 | Paul Ride and Michael Wainwright made their plea while waiting for news of appeals to Iraq 's Supreme Court . |
| 13 | It appears that he had a recurring dream in which he was told , " Socrates , be an artist " , a command which he ignored at first , supposing that nothing could be a higher " art " than his own philosophizing , but eventually complied with by writing some poetry while waiting for death in prison . |
| 14 | Once , while waiting for Kerrison to arrive , Doyle had actually laughed , a hearty guffaw , filling the hollow . |
| 15 | ‘ While waiting for drama roles I did actually have to make ends meet in other ways such as selling advertising space . |
| 16 | While waiting for medicine to cure idiots , I have undertaken to see that they participate in the benefit of education . |
| 17 | So I sat down on a chair that stood by the counter and looked around the shop while waiting for Mary to emerge from behind the colourful painted screen where she was trying things on . |