Example sentences of "was waiting at " in BNC.
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| 1 | Arabella Melville was waiting at Carmarthen station in a tartan dress . |
| 2 | A reddish-brown train was waiting at Helsingborg to take us on to Göteborg , two hundred and forty-three kilometres north , along the west coast . |
| 3 | Once , I was waiting at the bus stop one Sunday with my bags packed ready to go to Sheffield when Otley came running up : ‘ Do n't you want to see Fragile Earth ? |
| 4 | A mob of young Catholics was waiting at Cromac Square , armed with a good supply of bricks and metal objects to hurl at the marchers . |
| 5 | ‘ It could happen , say , during dinner while your father was waiting at table . ’ |
| 6 | I went to Southport and was waiting at the hotel for Lee when I saw him roll up . |
| 7 | Towards morning Jed dreamed he was waiting at a bus-stop . |
| 8 | A short tubby man was waiting at the Font door in grey overalls , beaming . |
| 9 | His wife , Victoria , was waiting at the roadside , with sons Reyniel , 11 , and Alejandro , six . |
| 10 | A tower wagon was waiting at the Lower Church Street corner to remove the junction in the overhead wires as soon as the last trolleybus had passed and replace it with plain wires leading only in the Mitcham direction . |
| 11 | The Maggot was waiting at the airstrip . |
| 12 | Sandra was waiting at the door . |
| 13 | A junior night sister was waiting at the dining-room door that next evening . |
| 14 | Chant was waiting at the perimeter , and fished the envelope containing the payment from his inside pocket . |
| 15 | Pinnacle , based in Columbus , Ohio , had originally planned to use the Texas Instruments Inc 64-bit SuperSparc that Sun is using in its latest workstations , but realised some time ago that it was waiting at the back of a long line of manufacturers queuing for a trickle of SuperSparcs being thrown their way . |
| 16 | When he arrived in South Africa , a crowd was waiting at the dock to greet him , and on later visits to the United States he was besieged by autograph hunters and press photographers waiting for him after readings . |
| 17 | However , although General Leclerc , whose armoured division had liberated Paris , was waiting at Kandy , the only French force within thousands of miles ( other than the Vichy forces now interned ) was the 5th Colonial Infantry Regiment in Ceylon . |
| 18 | Bathsheba knew she must swallow her pride , and called to Laban , who was waiting at the gate . |
| 19 | Natasha was waiting at the door of the apartment when Charlotte emerged from the elevator . |
| 20 | Lord Hulton was waiting at the entrance and I thought I had better warn him . |
| 21 | When I was waiting at the Connons the other night before you all so efficiently arrested me , I had occasion to use the phone-box almost opposite the house . |
| 22 | When she arrived back from Washington , Drew was waiting at the airport . |
| 23 | ‘ No , sir , I do n't know that , but I know why he was waiting at the gate . |
| 24 | At the house of the Chief Scribe , Reni 's major domo was waiting at the gate to meet them . |
| 25 | Leni was waiting at the foot of the last flight of stairs , which was partitioned off to give her a flimsy front door of her own . |
| 26 | Her garments were so large and flowing that a man could have pleasured her while she was waiting at a bus-stop and no one would have been any the wiser . |
| 27 | ‘ Who was waiting at St Cathan 's ? ’ said Thorfinn . |
| 28 | Oates was waiting at the door to lead Patrick down the long corridor to the office opposite the actual mortuary . |
| 29 | God , how I used to envy the Catholic girls going to the schools in Belfast when I was waiting at the bus stop like a fresh dog 's dinner to be carried off to Dothegirls Academy in me big grey interlocks with double gusset for the hockey stains . |
| 30 | He was waiting at Oxford ? ’ |