Example sentences of "waiting for [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the Royal Brompton alone there are 113 patients waiting for heart-lung transplants — transplants that do not always work . |
| 2 | The then Opposition spokesman said that would quickly be done , but I am still waiting for Labour Members to choose the subject for debate in the Select Committee . |
| 3 | In February 1756 reference is made to four illustrations ‘ sent some time since by our friend , Mr. Collinson ’ and Miller said he would have sent others except for the fact that he had been waiting for better colourists . |
| 4 | ‘ Waiting for forensic reports on Barney 's clothing ? ’ |
| 5 | Newton Aycliffe police investigating an incident when a stolen car was smashed into a policeman 's house last week say they have had good response from their appeal for witnesses and are waiting for forensic test results . |
| 6 | The delays were caused mainly by patients waiting for long term care ( because private provision had n't kept up with demand ) . |
| 7 | ‘ Meanwhile , ’ murmurs Miriam Bernstein , ‘ here we all sit waiting for second helpings . ’ |
| 8 | No Bishop of Durham could ever forget , or was ever allowed to forget , how one of his predecessors Westcott mediated in a bitter strike ; how a vast crowd stood outside Auckland Castle , seeing the owners through the windows of one room and the miners through the windows of another , waiting for five hours as they watched the bishop go to and fro between the two rooms ; until he brought the parties to a happy agreement , and when he came out among the crowd he received an ovation . |
| 9 | I thought bloody hell Lynn you 're only waiting for fifty P , you know ? |
| 10 | Your mother will not be waiting for sixteen years , after all . ’ |
| 11 | Oldham are also waiting for official confirmation from the Football Association that they can bring in another goalkeeper , a course of action restricted under Premier League rules to emergencies only . |
| 12 | But Believers as yet can not praise this solution — though they have likewise despaired of waiting for political leaders to become planetary saviours . |
| 13 | Hospitals kept them waiting for scarce beds , but sat on acres of land in the middle of booming cities . |
| 14 | The first items unpacked were trout-rods ; and they stayed up , ready and waiting for instant use for as long as we lived there . |
| 15 | Writing is not about waiting for spare seats at King Arthur 's table . ’ |
| 16 | Some were waiting for spare parts from Cairo , some were waiting on instructions from their owners , some were going downriver . |
| 17 | Decisions on the propriety of stocking a particular publication must depend very much on his or her own judgment and good sense , rather than on waiting for legal counsel . |
| 18 | The Bank of England has , for many years , sought to make this a continuous operation and it seeks to buy stock approaching maturity rather than waiting for legal redemption dates . |
| 19 | Fireworks are what youngsters are waiting for all year round when they remember , remember the fifth of November . |
| 20 | The Johnny Mathis ‘ A Child is Born ’ disc also avoided this by fudging the identity of the infant — ‘ The world is waiting for one child … black , white , yellow ? … no one knows . ’ |
| 21 | For they knew perfectly well that Lothar was waiting for one thing to happen before engaging in battle : one thing which would make him too feel he could win . |
| 22 | Waiting for that joist out the back . |
| 23 | I sat in many a night myself when you were all younger , waiting for that piss artist of a father of yours to come home , knowing in my heart that he was down the Bayswater Road , spending desperately needed money on old brasses . |
| 24 | The next question : who was he waiting for that night ? |
| 25 | He winced , waiting for that skin to split . |
| 26 | Why she stayed on waiting for that phone call Leith could n't have said , though she thought her very large concern about paying her mortgage had something to do with it . |
| 27 | She would be waiting for that moment . |
| 28 | Each special effect is just barely holding on to credibility , waiting for that cut which often comes only just in time ( and sometimes a fraction late ) . |
| 29 | It was all too much , waiting for that upstart Hitler to make up his mind ; to envisage the Germans strutting down the Mall as they 'd strutted down the Champs Élysées . |
| 30 | He stopped , waiting for armed Twenty-fourthers to swarm out of every window , demanding to know why Robert was proposing to barge in on their most secret and important ceremony . |