Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [be] wait [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We 've got clients , for example , where we are waiting for the sale of land to get our monies in , so it 's reasonable to expect that we 'll see that within the next three years . |
| 2 | I remember excusing this by saying that I was waiting for the police and that nothing should be touched until they had come . |
| 3 | Yes I am the outcome of it all is that she 's waiting on the wall , getting piles and I 'm going to go down the shop with her . |
| 4 | It dawned on Folly that she was waiting for a tip and , gathering what she could of her wits , she struggled out of bed to delve in her handbag . |
| 5 | Your landlady said you was n't married , that you was waiting for a while . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | ‘ He 's worried about Gairloch so he 's waiting for the vet . ’ |
| 8 | I 'm working on my own house at the moment and I 'm waiting for a grant off the Housing . |
| 9 | I owe you a pound , yeah , I ca n't give it to you dear because I 've still got exactly a ten pound note dear and I 'm waiting for the pools lady dear |
| 10 | When it was time to leave and I was waiting for the car to take me back to the station for the journey back , I have to confess that I shed a tear or two . |
| 11 | Perhaps you have had telephone problems of late and you are waiting for the Telecom engineer . |
| 12 | And all the way through the film these things were happening and you 're waiting for the thrilling resolution . |
| 13 | So even if you 're waiting for a sloth to move , you 'll never get tired . |
| 14 | ‘ Oh techniques of surveillance , when you 're sitting alone in a car you move into the passenger seat , make it look as if you 're waiting for the driver to come back … the trouble is , I never got a posting where I had to use it . ’ |
| 15 | And I mean think of say rolling back in traffic if you 're waiting on a hill . |
| 16 | You can imagine , they 're all waiting there , anything t to distract you if you 're waiting in a queue , and there was this man , throwing himself off ladders , chucking wardrobes everywhere and we got Very good . |
| 17 | We are staying in our hotel and we are waiting for the Serbs to stop killing the people . ’ |
| 18 | We 've slammed in the lamb and we 're waiting on the Yorkshire results . |
| 19 | Tracy wants a pair of boots and we 're waiting for the sales . |
| 20 | And it was quite quiet for a little bit because most of them had established themselves and we were waiting for a breakout and er we did n't get on the move again until the they went through the after it had been . |
| 21 | Only when they were sitting down in the chop-house and Dr Neil had ordered them soup and rolls , followed by lamb chops with seasonal vegetables , and a glass of red wine each — ‘ Good for your shattered nerves , ’ he said gravely — and they were waiting for the soup to arrive did Sally-Anne have time to look about her . |
| 22 | Well they ai n't going to anyway does a two or three years , they 're old age pensioners , the house is too big for them cos they 're waiting for a place to move , that 's why I want to get it , get this hedge grow before the next one comes in |
| 23 | Christ they 've done that for , the double decker Used to cos they was waiting in the come round to get |
| 24 | Now the strings have gone slack , and he is waiting for the end . |
| 25 | And he was waiting for the final match in the other group between Stefan Edberg and Boris Becker to see if his No 1 ranking could be threatened . |
| 26 | It was ten minutes brisk walk to the Embassy , and he was waiting on the corner as Hannele approached . |
| 27 | ‘ And we 're the highest ground of all , so we can see if anyone is waiting on a roof for an ambush . ’ |
| 28 | She told him what calls he had received and what was waiting in the post . |
| 29 | ‘ But I 'm waiting for the call . ’ |
| 30 | While I am waiting on the platform , a railway employee shouts across the track that the 9.49 is cancelled , and that the next train will be at 10.19 . |