Example sentences of "[noun pl] waiting for [pron] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They found their parents waiting for them at the top of a wide terrace of marble steps , and the governor 's aide-de-camp conducted them to the reception through a series of lofty , marble-floored chambers forty feet high . |
| 2 | At some unconscious level that was exactly what she had expected six months earlier — to step off the plane and see the man of her dreams waiting for her on the tarmac . |
| 3 | Any horrors waiting for him in the future were compensated by this moment in time . |
| 4 | There were police waiting for them in the van and they got another good beating . |
| 5 | There were a couple of men waiting for me in the car park tonight , said they had a message for me from a ‘ friend ’ that ran along the lines of warning me to keep my nose out of things that did n't concern me . ’ |
| 6 | Why were some men waiting for her on the night she died ? |
| 7 | The emigrants ' discomfort was aggravated by tantalising radio reports of the steaming soup tureens , hot water and clean clothes waiting for them at the reception centre in Hof , West Germany . |
| 8 | ‘ It did n't really sink in what I had done until I returned to school on the Monday morning and saw all the television cameras waiting for me at the gates , ’ says Dozzell . |
| 9 | After he opened in Twelfth Night , Arthur was hissed by a crowd of women waiting for him outside the stage door . |