Example sentences of "waiting on " in BNC.
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| 1 | Columbine too started life as a servant of the gods and gradually rose in rank from waiting on the aristocracy to conspiring with Harlequin in such ballets as The Good- Humoured Ladies , where the two of them appear as serving maid and waiter . |
| 2 | While I am waiting on the platform , a railway employee shouts across the track that the 9.49 is cancelled , and that the next train will be at 10.19 . |
| 3 | I can just see him , waiting on the rank . ’ |
| 4 | The Adjutant hastens out to see him to his car , which is waiting on the edge of the square . |
| 5 | His bags were packed and waiting on the bed . |
| 6 | There was usually some man waiting on the other side of the hole , like some sea creature waiting to grab its prey , and after I had settled on the seat , there would be a significant pause . |
| 7 | Madonna in waiting on set ( opposite ) , and getting Breathless with Warren Beatty ( this page next to the original cartoon Dick Tracy ) |
| 8 | It 's funny how many stars seem to harbour similar buried desires perhaps it 's all that time they spend waiting on tables before they get their big break . |
| 9 | The Pages were waiting on the table . |
| 10 | Examine a British crowd of passengers waiting on a cold platform for a train that should have arrived long ago . |
| 11 | Mr Stephen Hurkett was waiting on the central reservation just behind his wife Lorraine , 26 , and daughters Sharon , four , and Lisa , two , when they were hit by a car driven by Martin Flook , 19 , Bristol Crown Court was told . |
| 12 | Those 15 hours of waiting on Tuesday made Palestinians inside and outside the occupied territories realise the extent to which Yasser Arafat alone holds the whole movement together . |
| 13 | I saw Mr Callaghan come down the steps of his plane , stop at the foot and greet the throng of journalists waiting on the tarmac to question him about the current discontents . |
| 14 | On this interpretation , all but the grimmest traffic jam seems better than waiting on a cold , wet platform for the train that does n't arrive . |
| 15 | Sangster believes that the jockey 's indecision was primarily because he was ‘ waiting on Forest Tiger in the Craven Stakes ’ . |
| 16 | Sometimes , waiting on the Embankment in the summer gloaming , one would become conscious of an approaching figure , and an arm would be slipped round one 's waist , and a voice , in imitation of Bing Crosby , would croon , ‘ Moonlight becomes you , it goes with your hair ’ , and then one had to move away , tactfully , but smartly . |
| 17 | Just why a partner or a member of the family is so opposed to certain changes is hard to fathom but since the Full Moon on the 14th cuts right across the home and career angles of your horoscope , you may have to turn your full attention to work matters for a while and leave property or domestic issues waiting on hold until towards end the of the month . |
| 18 | He was waiting on God 's will . |
| 19 | Returning aircraft always had their own ground crews waiting on the air field ready to assist in case of trouble , and relations between air and ground crews were of the highest possible standard . |
| 20 | Waiting on my return as usual ! ’ |
| 21 | There is a substantial crowd of Schillings contemporaries waiting on library shelves awaiting discovery , and I am sure Marco Polo will bring us some of these . |
| 22 | It did n't feel like it , in spite of the decorations she had put up with such care , and the pile of letters and parcels waiting on the table to be opened tomorrow morning . |
| 23 | He had come in for a book of stamps , and when he had got it he joined Breeze , who was waiting on the Green . |
| 24 | False atrocity stories , misguidedly spread to encourage a spirit of resistance , and well-founded rumours that the French were waiting on the far side of the Channel to launch a second invasion added to the prevailing gloom and when , on what the diarist Horace Walpole described as ‘ Black Friday ’ , people in London learned that the Jacobites were already at Derby something approaching panic swept the capital . |
| 25 | When they said goodbye they 'd embraced by the front door , a taxi waiting on the road outside . |
| 26 | Cope confidently and calmly with whatever is waiting on the other side of it . |
| 27 | An hour later the twins and George were waiting on the corner with their baskets , bags and gas-masks . |
| 28 | And who knows what creep will be waiting on the roadside to accompany them . |
| 29 | NIGEL MANSELL 'S old boss Frank Williams will be waiting on the sidelines today as motor sport 's top brass sit down in Paris to find a way of saving next year 's Grand Prix calendar and prevent his Williams team from paying a massive fine . |
| 30 | Do you remember waiting on the station in the rain ? |