Example sentences of "[adv] waiting for [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Every girl in New York who is not a singer is only waiting for the right break to come along so she can get to be one . |
| 2 | They dreamed together their first dream of life : of its glories and its fame , of the life that lay beyond the prison walls of this school and beyond this miserable town , which to despise was their delight , of the life that must open up soon before them , that was only waiting for the two of them in order to receive them and shower them with its infinite gifts ! |
| 3 | Twenty or thirty thousand people were kneeling down facing westwards , patiently waiting for the final prayers of Ramadan . |
| 4 | It was much more the sheer vitality and range of committed ability , lay and clerical , present in the Church at that time and just waiting for a new lead . |
| 5 | Christie 's have got it and they 're just waiting for the right sale . |
| 6 | The result is that many glider pilots are becoming complacent about parking and on a really windy day it is not unusual to see gliders at risk , just waiting for the first really big gust of wind to blow them over . |
| 7 | Just waiting for the flash line to ring , not even knowing whether the kidnappers would have heard the radio show at all , or how they would react if they had , made Sam nauseous from stress . |
| 8 | She 'd never known any details ; she did n't know if the accident happened early on , or whether she would have to sit for a long time just waiting for the inevitable . |
| 9 | Neither are the civic groupings planning to hang around much longer waiting for an inter-party meeting to establish common ground and communal tactics . |
| 10 | ‘ I was desperately waiting for the magic word ‘ Cut ’ so I could attach myself to the wires before falling , ’ he says . |
| 11 | By the evening we were lined up with our small bundles , hopefully waiting for a returning plane , when we spotted some of our nice soldiers from Maymyo . |
| 12 | Further details will reach you just as soon as they reach us … we 're STILL waiting for a finished version of Hook , ‘ coz we refuse to write full reviews from pre-production , half-finished disks ! |
| 13 | We 're still waiting for a green form extension to grant t t to be granted |
| 14 | Bryan Gould is as good as gold and Gerald Kaufman is a happy-go-lucky bachelor who 's still waiting for the right girl to come along . |
| 15 | She says she 's still waiting for the right man . ’ |
| 16 | But , thank God , we now have the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation , and the World Health Organisation , but alas , are still waiting for the developed countries to engage in this world-wide task . |
| 17 | Carefully he tried again but Cameron took his arm and told him not to hurry unduly , the joists had only been pinned in place and they were still waiting for the long nails from Grandtully . |
| 18 | Nine months on Mr Boulton is still waiting for the two and a half thousand pounds he claims Brit-Pol owes him for the coach . |
| 19 | ‘ That 's a fair assumption , although we 're still waiting for the full results from the post-mortem . ’ |
| 20 | Still waiting for the ever-imminent T9000 Transputer , London-based Parsys Ltd has announced details of a new interim range of parallel supercomputers , the SN8000 series , based on the latest 30MHz T805 Transputer and , for the first time , the Intel Corp 80860 RISC ; the new vector-boosted machines follow the proposed architecture of the SN9000 , which in turn reflects the design of the GP MIMD Esprit consortium 's Concerto machine . |
| 21 | This is because we are still waiting for the connecting bus from Wolverhampton … ‘ ! |
| 22 | The photo above shows and some of his team , allegedly at 5.30am enthusiastically waiting for the customary ‘ Go ! ’ from the beach , prior to bursting into life on another action-packed safe day on Brent Charlie . |
| 23 | As far as he 's concerned , Barney is his man and he 's simply waiting for the forensic reports to confirm it . |
| 24 | Jack watched the guard dialling and then waiting for a nerve-stretching length of time . |
| 25 | It was n't hell working for Faye , and as she sat there waiting for the medical staff to leave the artist 's room , Belinda realised , I 've changed . |