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 . |