Example sentences of "waiting [to-vb] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was on the assessment house to start with , waiting to go on another house . |
| 2 | And there were two more people in front of me that was waiting to go on the course . |
| 3 | A bitch will alter depending on whether she is in season , in false pregnancy or waiting to come on heat . |
| 4 | Just waiting to pounce on some terrified child . |
| 5 | The potential for disaster lurks very close behind the bright shiny facade waiting to pounce on the unwary and relieve them of substantial sums of money . |
| 6 | ‘ There is enough trouble for pensioners in this day and age without them having to go out and meet people such as you waiting to prey on them like jackals . ’ |
| 7 | They 've been trying to find alternative berths for incoming cargoes and negotiating the release of ships waiting to sail on the night time . |
| 8 | He listened — at first with a curious air of detachment , as if he was an observer from another civilisation , or someone whose own experience had come to an end , someone who was waiting to embark on a journey and looked at the world with vacant eyes , his mind already in transit . |
| 9 | Maggie acted , racing from her room and running to the stairs , not waiting to put on slippers or a robe . |
| 10 | A lot of the best-looking Waafs on the station had acquired Australian boyfriends , and two of the Met girls had recently married them and were impatiently waiting to get on the ship for Aussie-land to join their husbands . |
| 11 | In the departure lounge there was a crowd of passengers waiting to get on other planes , and also a lot of doctors , police , and newspaper journalists . |
| 12 | That sort of thing and the number of people waiting to get on a course . |
| 13 | Its Sheffield rally had a whiff of Nuremburg triumphalism , and it was odds on that Ashdown would be waiting to learn on what terms he would be invited to support ‘ the unthinkable ’ . |
| 14 | Ms Toynbee said Schmit had flown in from Zurich earlier that morning and was waiting to travel on another Wardair flight to Vancouver . |
| 15 | ‘ But if you 've got any more surprises waiting to spring on us , then warn me about them now ! |