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

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1 ‘ I have been waiting for a long time to get my hands on this one ’ , a review of Nicolson by Kingsley Amis began .
2 ‘ For many years we have been waiting for a mighty star to appear in the heavens and now it has .
3 The fog lifted and the house became filled with a babble of excitable people , few of whom spoke English and who all arrived at once because they 'd been waiting for a clear passage .
4 We are waiting for a new quotation from Eurofighter for their part of the programme erm but in advance of receiving it I 'd not rather not speculate as to which impact it might have on the project .
5 You say you had stuff stood here when I 'm waiting for a bleeding .
6 I 'm waiting for a new one .
7 In early 1945 I went with U Kyaw Min to Ceylon to talk to British forces which were then thought to be waiting for a seaborne invasion of Burma .
8 Erm , so what were doing is were , we hope were waiting for a new prisoner to be allocated to us , erm , and perhaps we could , perhaps we could , perhaps we can write and remind you think , think we should do that ?
9 PENNSYLVANIA governor Robert Casey , 61 , who is waiting for a heart-and-liver transplant , is continuing his duties from his hospital room .
10 Throughout this turn , he is waiting for a favourable reaction from the two footballers and , in significant contrast to his argument with Hollar , adopts a much less formal register in order not to alienate them .
11 She wrote : ‘ My mum is waiting for a heart-lung transplant .
12 1.42 One of the main reasons for delay in personal injury cases is the fact that the plaintiff 's solicitor is waiting for a medical prognosis before being able to quantify the claim .
13 They say that as the meeting was drawing to its conclusion , everyone was waiting for a certain person to utter a few graceful words by way of a thank-you to the summit host , Mr Mitterrand .
14 He never found anything ; when I left he was waiting for a new pair to be brought up from Auckland , and wondering if the insurance company would cough up .
15 But in fact he was waiting for a different kind of photograph , a different kind of confirmation .
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