Example sentences of "[noun] while waiting for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He then ordered a car to call for him the next morning for a similar occasion and was felled by a stroke while waiting for the lift . |
| 2 | HIGHLY-publicised incidents of patients who die on trolleys in accident and emergency units while waiting for a hospital bed are the rare consequences of the extreme pressure under which most units work . |
| 3 | However , facing into the wind while waiting for a launch , a tyre on the wing-tip is just a convenient way of preventing the wing from lifting off the ground . |
| 4 | Indeed , it is said that he composed one aria while waiting for the rice to cook . |
| 5 | According to Le Monde of Nov. 22 the number of asylum seekers ( who came especially from eastern Europe ) had risen to 1,700 per month , and a new law to speed the processing of asylum applications stipulated that these should be processed within two months , after which an applicant recognized as a refugee could take up provisional residence while waiting for a definitive decision . |
| 6 | Workers could not clear the tunnels of smoke while waiting for the rescue teams to arrive . |
| 7 | Over the fell , near where Deepdale meets Dentdale , is a farm called Coventree , which , Miley Taylor told me one night in the Sun Inn , is named after a tree beneath which the hairy crones of Dentdale would hold their covens and throw eye of newt and armpit of toad into the stew while waiting for the Dales equivalent of Macbeth and Banquo to come riding out of the night . |
| 8 | The young composer practises his scales while waiting for a big break . |
| 9 | course in Education at Southampton University while waiting for the divorce to come through , but while I like Oman , I do not feel ‘ stretched ’ in this post and also ( now I have reached the age of fifty ) miss being in England with children and family . |
| 10 | Sarah Hunt , 74 , was left soaked in blood after holding her sister for at least 25 minutes while waiting for an ambulance to arrive after the tragedy in Bishop Auckland . |
| 11 | DARLINGTON Memorial Hospital managers are still investigating claims that a 90year-old woman was forgotten for three hours while waiting for an operation . |
| 12 | There was the famous occasion when he picked at a wall behind a bus stop while waiting for a bus and found a rare specimen fossil ; and the occasion when he cut his leg while climbing a rockface at Craigleith Quarry and failed to notice it until his Wellington boot was full of blood , whereupon he drove to the nearest hospital for stitches and a transfusion . |
| 13 | For John Prescot today , not a discrete silence while waiting for the leader 's call , he was making it clear that he wanted a swap to one of the top economic jobs . |
| 14 | He disappeared from a parking lot while waiting for a Mafia contact , from where flashbacks of his past are reconstructed . |
| 15 | Problems have arisen at King 's College Hospital , London , where large numbers of patients have had to wait on trolleys for up to 30 hours in the accident and emergency unit while waiting for a bed . |
| 16 | Up to the age of 39 he was one of that sad , nervous and obscure clan of people who scraped a living as a barrister while waiting for a distant relative to die and leave him an independent income . |
| 17 | A BIRDS EYE VIEW : Visitors make the most of the sideshows while waiting for the start of It 's a Knockout and Superstars . |
| 18 | Doctor Granville pointed out that one of the most difficult problems facing those taking cures at Harrogate was that of ‘ the best mode of killing time while waiting for the waters to take effect . ’ |