Example sentences of "[prep] [subord] [pron] [be] wait for " in BNC.
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| 1 | It looked as if they were waiting for somebody , could it be me ? |
| 2 | ‘ It 's as if everyone is waiting for something , is n't it ? ’ |
| 3 | Lilac gloves , half-boots made of kid — she looked , as she sat rather apprehensively in the country inn parlour , as if she were waiting for Mr Gainsborough . |
| 4 | She looked as if she was waiting for me so before she could say anything I spoke . |
| 5 | An uncomfortable pause while he sat forward on the sofa holding his coffee cup in both hands and gazing into it as if he was waiting for some kind of chemical reaction . |
| 6 | She kept waiting for him to do something , but he hesitated , as if he were waiting for her . |
| 7 | As she had come round the corner of the house from putting her bicycle in the old stable block , Inspector Blakelock had been standing at the front door almost as if he were waiting for her . |
| 8 | No one here likes you , the way you sit off by yourself at meals half the time as if you 're waiting for someone who 's good enough for you . |
| 9 | ‘ 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 . ’ |