Example sentences of "was [adv] [v-ing] for [art] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He made friends easily though he occasionally collected the odd hanger-on who I felt sure was only waiting for a Sheikhly hand-out . |
| 2 | The British government was only waiting for the ECJ to rule ( and its decision was not unexpected ) before reforming the Shops Act . |
| 3 | Graham swung the Makarova on Al-Makesh who was still reaching for the Beretta . |
| 4 | He was still driving for the McLaren team , this time with the amiable German Jochen Mass , but the team had fallen on relatively lean times , and Emerson , a man short on patience and long on a sense of his own worth — and with two championships to his name — was a sometimes angry and often frustrated man . |
| 5 | It was difficult to reach an agreed policy and the CDP was now waiting for the CNAA to make the next move' . |