Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [adv] waiting [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He did n't always recognize the president 's authority , there 's a wonderful , there 's a wonderful true story of er er at some point in the Korean war Truman flew out from Los Angeles and MacArthur flew out from er Korea and they met in one of the Pacific islands , I forget which one i er Wake Island I think , and , and on the runway you had the president 's plane at one end and MacArthur 's plane at the other end you see , and Truman sits there waiting for MacArthur to come to him and MacArthur sits there waiting for the president to come to him , you see , and nobody moves . |
| 2 | He did n't always recognize the president 's authority , there 's a wonderful , there 's a wonderful true story of er er at some point in the Korean war Truman flew out from Los Angeles and MacArthur flew out from er Korea and they met in one of the Pacific islands , I forget which one i er Wake Island I think , and , and on the runway you had the president 's plane at one end and MacArthur 's plane at the other end you see , and Truman sits there waiting for MacArthur to come to him and MacArthur sits there waiting for the president to come to him , you see , and nobody moves . |
| 3 | What sort of thing — for instance , one of the problems in some areas might be that the buses erm do n't erm that there is an insufficient bus service late in the evening , so a lot of kids hang about waiting for a bus and get into trouble waiting . |
| 4 | There is no meal ready ; all the washing and ironing sits there waiting to be done , instead of clean clothes waiting to be worn again . |
| 5 | Graham sitting there waiting for me to kick him in the teeth . |
| 6 | Ted stood there waiting with the shirt over his arm , waiting to hear the inevitable sequence completed before he went on ; slam the van door , up the outside stairs to the flat over the workshop , another door to slam , and then LOUD MUSIC . |
| 7 | Ember gave up waiting for her and signalled frantically . |
| 8 | There were dozens of people sitting around waiting for other people . |
| 9 | ‘ There is nothing worse than players hanging around waiting for the next instruction . |
| 10 | The professionals sat around waiting for the gentlemen to return before the match was called off . |
| 11 | But I went down the bottom of this street , and the man stood there waiting for me . |
| 12 | Mr Priest looked up and stared at Dad for a while and Dad stood there waiting for a reply . |
| 13 | Our porn challenges the received myths about our love-making , as Gillian Rodgerson pointed out when she argued that lesbians need to produce their own because ‘ then the myth that all lesbian sex is two women lounging around waiting for a man to join them , might finally be exploded . ’ |
| 14 | Bits of Meccano lay around waiting to be pilfered if I 'd had the courage . |
| 15 | My three daughters sat there waiting for me . |