Example sentences of "be waiting in a [noun] " in BNC.

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1 You can imagine , they 're all waiting there , anything t to distract you if you 're waiting in a queue , and there was this man , throwing himself off ladders , chucking wardrobes everywhere and we got Very good .
2 They must have been waiting in a car , as neither wore an overcoat and both were suddenly there smack in front of me , blocking the pavement , tantalizingly close to home .
3 During the trial Mr O'Donnell told how he had agreed to go with McPherson , who had driven him to a lay-by at the Rest and Be Thankful on the A83 road , where men he recognised had been waiting in a van .
4 ‘ He 's waiting in a coach at the door , ’ replied Rose .
5 To want to be a millionaire was coarse , even ridiculous ; money somehow floated down from Daddy or was waiting in a will at the end of an estate — that , though rarely the reality , was a prevailing view , and rather attractive in its unworldly dimension .
6 The car was waiting in a side street .
7 She was following fellow nurse Justine Glynn who was waiting in a gap in the central reservation to cross the East Lancashire Road in Windle .
8 One of the witnesses called today was Peter Simpson , a taxi driver who was waiting in a layby in Akers Way when he said he heard the sound of screeching tyres and looked to see two cars driving at speed , nose to tail along the road .
9 A bottle of Dom Perignon was waiting in an ice-bucket on the antique sofa-table .
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