Example sentences of "waiting for [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rather than waiting for inspiration he is shown with a pen in his hand , an unfinished manuscript on the table , and at his side a harpsichord on which we are to imagine him playing through the work in progress . |
| 2 | Marion looked round her room , waiting for inspiration . |
| 3 | One productive starting point is to break the illusion that writing is a " gestation " process of waiting for inspiration until the essay forms itself , fully-fledged , in your mind and just needs to be written down . |
| 4 | Other car makers will tell you they have similar projects on the drawing board , just waiting for management approval . |
| 5 | Bill Pritchard , whom we left going ashore at the Old Mole with his demolition control party and Philip Walton 's demolition squad , protected by Tiger Watson 's men , moved into the Old Town in commando fashion : each party , indeed each man , when alone , moved towards the target without waiting for support . |
| 6 | Part of the problem has been the software , which has been looking for a decent hardware platform and waiting for support from a mainstream operating system vendor . |
| 7 | ‘ Oh my God ! ’ she shrieked , not waiting for Dad to finish . |
| 8 | When I left Nellie I hung about waiting for Dad 's protection but he did n't appear . |
| 9 | What can you gain from sitting behind a desk making and waiting for telephone calls , going from game to game watching players you already know about ? ’ |
| 10 | He could n't afford another scandal while waiting for trial . |
| 11 | Steps were taken before the Report of the Civil Justice Review to deal with the problem of waiting for trial with regard to the general list cases in the Queen 's Bench . |
| 12 | the times I 've tried for up to five minutes waiting for switchboard to answer |
| 13 | We 've got lots of children waiting for help in this country — they should come first |
| 14 | All afternoon she had been waiting for evidence of the racing rumour-machine at work . |
| 15 | Is the Minister aware that there are now thousands of people waiting for home improvement grants , some of whom applied before 1984 ? |
| 16 | I 'm waiting for Home and Away and that so I can start the tape . |
| 17 | Well she 's waiting for Home and Away to come on as well . |
| 18 | The record card for such a client was scribbled over with the comment of dealers : " He 's about to buy a house ; has no funds ; he 'll see how the shares he already has do ; he 's going in for Rolls Royce , so has no money ; he 's still waiting for share certificates — once these have arrived he will think about further investment . " |
| 19 | I sat in the restaurant car waiting for breakfast and peered eagerly through steamy windows at an obscure grey landscape , unwilling to miss any part of the new ground that I was covering . |
| 20 | Previously he had to spend an hour at a transit warehouse near Lyons waiting for clearance . |
| 21 | Without waiting for direction from his captor he had sat down , his overcoat , muddy and stained , pulled around him for warmth , and his bowler hat , the crease of a dent in its crown , clamped on his head . |
| 22 | I was afraid , waiting for Mum to raise her hand , but she did not move . |
| 23 | Britain 's two banned weightlifters were waiting for phone calls that would send them back to Barcelona . |
| 24 | ‘ Here , they 're just sitting in the station , waiting for phone calls . ’ |
| 25 | Some of the patients waiting for surgery are young children born with congenital problems . |
| 26 | A WOMAN waiting for surgery has reacted angrily to figures showing a massive reduction in the number of people waiting more than two years for hospital treatment . |
| 27 | At the end of the day , Tess was waiting for Angel to bring the horse and carriage , when two men passed her in the street . |
| 28 | Includes the singles ‘ Heaven Knows ’ and ‘ Waiting For Love ’ |
| 29 | The seven-inch format features a new track ‘ Cherry Kind ’ and the 12″ and CD versions have four songs , including ‘ Sun Goes Down ’ and ‘ Waiting For Love ’ . |
| 30 | ALIAS : ‘ Waiting For Love ’ ( EMI ) another collection of American soft rockers who deserve to bite the bullet , with this , their second single , preceding their debut LP due next month … out now |