Example sentences of "[v-ing] for [pers pn] by the " in BNC.
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1 | She went upstairs and slung her bikini bottoms in a bag , along with her suntan oil and a towel , and ran downstairs , to find him waiting for her by the front door . |
2 | The photographer would be waiting for her by the exhibition stand in twenty minutes or so . |
3 | By the time he had locked off the plane 's controls and opened the door , Ahmed Myeloski was out of the Lada and waiting for him by the side of the executive jet . |
4 | Dalziel 's car was waiting for him by the exit . |
5 | After Charlie had finished dressing , he found Sal and Kitty waiting for him by the front door , but he refused to allow them to accompany him to the station , despite their tearful protest . |
6 | With a bit of luck , she would be begging for it by the time he came back . |
7 | In Indonesia , for example the US-owned oil company Caltex had some 10,000 people working for it by the beginning of the 1980s . |