Example sentences of "[adj] and waiting [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | They left within two days of his release , leaving me tired , dazed , relieved and waiting for the Second Son to come ‘ home ’ for yet another week-end . |
| 2 | News on the Rialto is that the marker price at which IBM Corp is doing deals is $45,000 per MIPS — and our New York associate Technology News of America hears German users are sitting tight and waiting for the price to hit $40,000 per MIPS . |
| 3 | In popular mythology poisonous snakes are always ready and waiting for the chance to strike out and kill their attackers . |
| 4 | Opened by another Mr Perkins who was staying at the same hotel , the package was passed to police who were ready and waiting for the actor when he arrived at the hotel in Cardiff . |
| 5 | He 's now ready and waiting for the Bridge return , saying : ‘ We are playing against the Premier League leaders so obviously we 've got something to prove to everyone as well . |
| 6 | Before dawn this morning the protestors were again out in force , ready and waiting for the demolition men . |
| 7 | Now they are going to appeal , but in the meanwhile the work is going on and the bulldozers are ready and waiting on the west side of the excavations , right up against the seventeenth-century cellars which were found intact , still full of bottles and vessels . |
| 8 | After all , it was nearly seven and Ms Right would be ready and waiting in the foyer of Phedre which , she had promised me , was action-packed . |
| 9 | But at least the food is there in a crisis — and is also there ready and waiting in the event that a government comes to power which is serious about getting food through to the poorest . |