Example sentences of "waiting in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Waiting in the wings is a book by him about Ursula , entitled Style , which , according to Graham Greene , who was sent the manuscript , could be edited for publication . |
| 2 | Police waiting in the shadows . |
| 3 | Waiting in the wings , there was a young colleague of his from his museum days , Paul Spence , a sculpture man . |
| 4 | Meanwhile still waiting in the wings are the Cameron 's management buy-out team and Sunderland brewers Vaux . |
| 5 | Too often the evidence of devilish intent was received with disbelief or electorally inspired inaction ( though Winston , waiting in the wings , gobbled it up ) . |
| 6 | Waiting in the Methodist Hall to rehearse the roles of CS Lewis and the woman he spent three blissful years with before her death , Joy Davidman , were Nigel Hawthorne and Jane Lapotaire , another pair of stars not usually to be found out west . |
| 7 | At the Trocadero there were always six hundred people waiting in the 6d queue . |
| 8 | The steaming water was waiting in the basin before the mirror . |
| 9 | Waiting in the wings is the C112 supercar , powered , we now believe , by the new V12 engine and set to make its first public appearance at the Frankfurt show in September . |
| 10 | NO SNOW fell during the night and at 10.00 , after Erika had run her five kilometres under a dazzling blue sky , Karl ran and said that he thought he rather did that a brief tour of Berlin would be possible and that he would be waiting in the lounge of the Palast at 11.00 ; adding that Paul should meet them at the television Tower at 1.00 |
| 11 | Waiting in the wings , as he knew , was just such a scheme , which had been produced by a young architect called John Simpson . |
| 12 | Canon Frances Briscoe ( York ) said failure to pass the legislation to the grassroots would be a ‘ betrayal of women out in the dioceses , waiting in the wings ’ . |
| 13 | In theory , it is a simple matter to overthrow a wilting strongman and replace him with a civilian president conveniently waiting in the wings . |
| 14 | There is no national group comparable to East Germany 's New Forum waiting in the wings or person , with or without charisma , who seems likely to emerge as a de facto leader in the way that Lech Walesa emerged in Poland or Vaclav Havel did in Czechoslovakia . |
| 15 | A few supermarkets and food shops were open , most with long queues of customers waiting in the intense heat , hoping to stock up on food and other necessities in case the paralysis of the city 's life continues . |
| 16 | There are 277 people , besides Mr Harris , waiting in the prison 's five-tiered death row . |
| 17 | Some 300 young men are waiting in the parliament to be killed . |
| 18 | A new comedy wave , I suppose , is waiting in the wings . |
| 19 | Have to go now , Tony 's waiting in the steamer . |
| 20 | They are waiting in the studio reception where the presenter appears , a human typhoon with glasses that could burn holes in paper on a sunny day and the kind of clothes you ca n't even find in C&A any more . |
| 21 | Certainly Stock , Aitken and Waterman and the guardian angel figure of manager Terry Blamey were waiting in the wings , but would they understand and care for her in the same way ? |
| 22 | Pavic , a moustached and gentlemanly Yugoslav , was waiting in the wings with an actress , who would read all but the first page or two of the chosen extract in English translation . |
| 23 | However , it seems that there is a lot more Kent furniture waiting in the reserves , unknown to the public : the furniture-maker had made many runs of sofas , chairs and so on . |
| 24 | Election ‘ 92 : Vengeful undertaker waiting in the wings Godfrey Barker on the man who may succeed Kinnock if Labour lose |
| 25 | There 's a wealth of directorial talent waiting in the wings of British theatre . |
| 26 | The bidey-in waiting in the close , eh ? ’ he grinned . |
| 27 | Waiting in the cockpit , he watched a couple of tanned young Americans race each other in from the reef on sailboards . |
| 28 | Ludens informed Irina that a car was waiting in the drive . |
| 29 | What he had retained was the sense of an elusive mystery waiting in the heights for his return . |
| 30 | Francoise Jacquier , waiting in the Caribbean port of Limon for the start of the race , seemed more worried about the effects it would have on her . |