Example sentences of "[prep] waiting [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This must be what shooting a film was like : the brightly lit scene , the ennui of waiting for the chief actors to appear tile brief moments of activity , the concentrated attention to detail . |
| 2 | And the only thing is that finally after three months of waiting for the received all their medals and things for so it can go ahead . |
| 3 | Choosing the best time to buy is not always possible , and sometimes the inconvenience of waiting for the right moment can cause more trouble than any financial saving may by worth . |
| 4 | Given the benefit of hindsight , Scotland could have done with a more demanding opening and might also have deployed the likes of Murry Walker and Carl Hogg first out , instead of waiting for the taxing fixture against Nadroga . |
| 5 | There is no suggestion anywhere else in the New Testament of waiting for the Holy Spirit . |
| 6 | But instead of waiting on the same platform for an Edgware train , they made their way up to the British Rail terminus , and in the men 's lavatory the bear got into his bear suit . |
| 7 | So it was a question of waiting till the right moment . |
| 8 | Twelve weeks later , the fourth wall was similarly treated , and it was then a case of waiting until the following spring , to see if any further scale build-up and weed growth would occur . |
| 9 | It should be worth waiting for the last in which Mick Ryan 's Les Amis ( 3.40 ) is well drawn and must be fancied on her two lengths defeat of Quinta Royale at Folkestone . |
| 10 | It was like waiting for the Second Coming . |
| 11 | Britain and Hong Kong have apparently decided against waiting for the Steering Committee of the UN Conference on Indo-Chinese refugees to meet on January 18 before reviewing the situation . |
| 12 | Then spring again , and with the greening of the land the creature gave birth to birds before waiting in the deepest thicket for the call of the Men who were hunting and gathering from the forest . |
| 13 | In the last month before war was declared , families who were still on the waiting list for places on the Kindertransporte , but knew they had little chance of moving up the queue , took to waiting at the main rail stations , watching and hoping . |
| 14 | This policy has allowed the preparation of the Phoenix on data processing and computer science , for instance , which was published without waiting for the twentieth edition . |
| 15 | Without waiting for The Fat Controller 's reaction to all this , she turned and went back to her own table , where she was greeted with little ‘ Well done 's and furtive shoulder pats from her fellow diners . |
| 16 | She remained miserably at Little Gidding after Nicholas 's death , but finally , when John died , she hysterically demanded to leave for London immediately after the funeral ; without waiting for the weekly coach she departed uncomfortably in a countryman 's wagon . |
| 17 | Without waiting for the inevitable flourish of the panama and the affected little bow that she knew would accompany his farewell , she turned round and hurried away . |
| 18 | However , without waiting for the Royal Commission the Liberal Government decided to promote two pieces of legislation that significantly modified the role of the poor law in the provision of social security , the Old Age Pensions Act of 1908 and the National Insurance Act of 1911 . |
| 19 | One way of dealing with it , without waiting for the royal commission report , is by starting to video all such interviews forthwith . |
| 20 | Hey , do n't worry , we 've got really good at waiting over the last couple of days . |
| 21 | Most of the time is consumed by waiting for the various processes of typesetting , page design and layout , proofing and so on to occur . |