Example sentences of "[was/were] waiting [prep] [pers pn] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Actual guides were waiting for them on the Scots side , from the Graham tower , producing a grim smile from Douglas , for one of his principal headaches as Keeper of Liddesdale was apt to be the inroads and cross-border raiding of these same Grahams , Kirkandrews prominent . |
| 2 | Hurley was waiting for them on the tarmac near the terminal in his big blue BMW 520i . |
| 3 | But he was confronted by an ecstatic welcome from his mother , who was waiting for him on the doorstep . |
| 4 | So the next morning she went to Rouen station , and when her son , still wearing a fresh crust of pride and sex , got off the train , she was waiting for him on the platform . |
| 5 | Beryl Garland was waiting for him on the landing , a lean , bony woman with uncared-for greying hair , a pallid complexion blotched with an unnatural pink , and restless suspicious eyes . |
| 6 | The Prince was waiting for him on the terrace of the Hotel Continental , sitting by himself and looking bored . |