Example sentences of "waiting for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I could have been any little old lady waiting for a relative to arrive from Holland . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Then , after waiting for a specified length of time , the hair can be shampooed in the usual way . |
| 4 | They remembered this two hours later as they stood on the meadow in front of the big house at Fortingall , waiting for a crowd to gather . |
| 5 | Where is the Wagon Train that seemed permanently to be circling its wagons waiting for a drunken pioneer 's wife to have twins in the last of them ? |
| 6 | Here , unfortunately , no restaurant area is yet available to allow customers to eat what they buy where they buy it , but the time spent waiting for a takeaway sandwich will be an invaluable education in Italian food . |
| 7 | The crowd of critics waiting for a fall ? |
| 8 | ‘ I 'm just waiting for a cab . ’ |
| 9 | I stood on the fringe of the little group for a few moments waiting for a chance to speak to Lovat . |
| 10 | Do n't hold your breath waiting for a reply . |
| 11 | Now he too was waiting for a phone call , promised for the afternoon . |
| 12 | I spect he 's waiting for a train . |
| 13 | Fr Piet Leliveld , newly arrived in war-torn Sudan , writes to say that he is now in Omdurman , near the site of the famous battle of 1898 , waiting for a government permit to move to El Obeid . |
| 14 | Wall Street is not holding its breath waiting for a new deal . |
| 15 | They say that as the meeting was drawing to its conclusion , everyone was waiting for a certain person to utter a few graceful words by way of a thank-you to the summit host , Mr Mitterrand . |
| 16 | Isolated detectors are sitting in laboratories around the world , waiting for a piece of dark matter — hot , cold , lukewarm or otherwise — to come along . |
| 17 | After being hired ‘ I sat here for five weeks waiting for a telephone call , ’ says Terry Chellew , the boss of IDG 's British magazines . |
| 18 | — and chuckling quietly in the semi-demented manner of someone who is sitting alone in damp clothes in an empty restaurant in a strange country waiting for a twenty-five-dollar pizza . |
| 19 | I was on time but kept waiting for a few minutes so that the assembled Health Authority Chairmen and administrators could pass a motion condemning the Government 's offer as divisive . |
| 20 | He was only waiting for a chance . |
| 21 | In its frosty , stunned isolation , his mind found it quite natural to be out in the wind in this remote place , waiting for a disembodied voice . |
| 22 | As he spoke , he watched her suspicious face , waiting for a change of expression . |
| 23 | He lay there for a moment , stunned , winded , waiting for a message from his numbed brain . |
| 24 | Gazzer wasted twenty minutes on the sea front waiting for a bus to take him up as far as the Leisure Centre . |
| 25 | Charles reproved her for rushing on ahead of his story , and told her about this Sergeant lurking within like a spider waiting for a juicy fly . |
| 26 | Yet history records that the nation was not waiting for a programme of national reconstruction . |
| 27 | Try pulling one of the other 's single doors open on a mountain in a gale waiting for a gust to catch it and snap the stay . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |