Example sentences of "waiting for he [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I would be waiting for him outside the room and would suggest that he too withdraw a minor claim ; then add a new demand . |
| 2 | After he opened in Twelfth Night , Arthur was hissed by a crowd of women waiting for him outside the stage door . |
| 3 | He went out of the bedroom and down the stairs to the hallway where Matilda Jenkins was waiting for him with her hand out . |
| 4 | Sammy was yapping and jumping up and down , waiting for him at the bottom . |
| 5 | Tom was waiting for him at the bottom . |
| 6 | Georgi Kirov was waiting for him at the appointed place and time . |
| 7 | ‘ Your man 's a faceless pig to most people out on the streets , ’ said Hogan nastily , as Cowley led the way through the swing doors of the Ministry building , and hurried towards his chauffeur driven car , waiting for him at the bottom of the steps . |
| 8 | And , on his way to meet the Prime Minister , Mr Delors bumped his head on the car waiting for him at Heathrow . |
| 9 | They would be waiting for him at the train 's next scheduled stop , the guard would see to that . |
| 10 | Gravier 's wife and child and parents had been waiting for him at Acapulco . |
| 11 | They were all waiting for him at home now , he knew , in the olive grove , where the snails would be out crawling in the rain . |
| 12 | Hasan was waiting for him at the top of the stairs , and , as soon as he heard his guardian 's tread , the little boy sat up , sniffed the air and stretched out his hands like a cat , waking after sleep . |
| 13 | But they 're waiting for him at the telecottage , a converted school which is due to run out of HIE and BT funding soon and is aiming to become a profitable business , specialising in desk-top publishing , graphic design and printing . |
| 14 | Cranston was waiting for him at the small tavern just outside Aldgate in the Portsoken overlooking the stinking city ditch . |
| 15 | But he was confronted by an ecstatic welcome from his mother , who was waiting for him on the doorstep . |
| 16 | So the next morning she went to Rouen station , and when her son , still wearing a fresh crust of pride and sex , got off the train , she was waiting for him on the platform . |
| 17 | Everything had been going so well this time ; leaving Glasgow on Saturday anticipation had been high , Amanda had even been waiting for him on the pavement outside her flat . |
| 18 | Beryl Garland was waiting for him on the landing , a lean , bony woman with uncared-for greying hair , a pallid complexion blotched with an unnatural pink , and restless suspicious eyes . |
| 19 | The Prince was waiting for him on the terrace of the Hotel Continental , sitting by himself and looking bored . |
| 20 | Rudely , without waiting for him to hand it to her , she snatched it out of his hand , then anxiously turned over the scrawled papers one by one . |
| 21 | She was waiting for him to rant on — her face coolly patient . |
| 22 | It was as if she had been waiting for him for all these years . |
| 23 | He had n't contacted her since that early-morning call yesterday , and she wondered if he truly expected her to sit here , simply waiting for him like the princess in the tower . |
| 24 | When he arrived in South Africa , a crowd was waiting at the dock to greet him , and on later visits to the United States he was besieged by autograph hunters and press photographers waiting for him after readings . |
| 25 | Suddenly he had a vision of the Worm , coil upon coil , waiting for him behind the door in the dark . |
| 26 | Where the man was , gone or waiting for him behind the next tree , he had no idea . |
| 27 | She told me that just across the road there lived what she described as a mantenuta , a kept woman , whose lover visited her every day : she could be seen waiting for him behind the semi-closed shutters . |
| 28 | Ranulf and Dame Agatha were waiting for him near the Galilee Gate , the young nun apparently enjoying an account of one of his manservant 's many escapades in London . |
| 29 | The driver of the truck sent to meet Charles and his baggage at the railhead south of Arras , had told him that Lord Christopher — Charles did n't ask the surname — was waiting for him in the Officers ' Mess of 2nd Grenadiers . |
| 30 | He had left and walked back to the hotel , and by the time he reached it the police were waiting for him in the lobby . |