Example sentences of "[subord] they [be] waiting for " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ If they are waiting for reinforcements , ’ remarked Osbern of Eu , ‘ they will be in no hurry to fight in any case . |
| 2 | It looked as if they were waiting for somebody , could it be me ? |
| 3 | A waiter came up and after one close look at them asked if they were waiting for Count Felipe de Santis . |
| 4 | Well they ai n't going to anyway does a two or three years , they 're old age pensioners , the house is too big for them cos they 're waiting for a place to move , that 's why I want to get it , get this hedge grow before the next one comes in |
| 5 | Now hopefully , Dick said they 're palletizing while they 're waiting for the containers they 're also palletizing the rest of that stuff . |
| 6 | Now it rains underneath and oh er the switch is gone and I 'm waiting cos they 're a shop , I think they 've never been down , while they 're waiting for the rep to come . |
| 7 | Boys queued up to take Gloria out , but avoided Deirdre , in case she asked them to help her muck out while they were waiting for Gloria to get her false eyelashes in the right place . |
| 8 | While they were waiting for the warrant to arrive the Captain telephoned the American Consulate to inform them of Deborah Maxwell 's citizenship . |
| 9 | While they were waiting for the targets to be set up , Burun took Rostov aside . |
| 10 | * We marched for about two hours then stopped for the night and ate fish the Indians had caught in the river while they were waiting for us . |
| 11 | ‘ Came here once , ’ commented Lord Beddington morosely , looking round while they were waiting for cabs to return . |