Example sentences of "was wait [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As a teenager , Souness trained with Celtic and was waiting with a friend to catch a late bus home . |
| 2 | Upstairs , in the control room , the Chief of Airport Police , Inspector Holm , was waiting with a soldier . |
| 3 | Sarah Monelle , 21 , above , was waiting with a group of friends for a taxi after a Christmas party at her local rugby club . |
| 4 | Towards morning Jed dreamed he was waiting at a bus-stop . |
| 5 | Her garments were so large and flowing that a man could have pleasured her while she was waiting at a bus-stop and no one would have been any the wiser . |
| 6 | Now he too was waiting for a phone call , promised for the afternoon . |
| 7 | Your landlady said you was n't married , that you was waiting for a while . |
| 8 | I was waiting for a friend and I would like to get out of here some time this week . ’ |
| 9 | It dawned on Folly that she was waiting for a tip and , gathering what she could of her wits , she struggled out of bed to delve in her handbag . |
| 10 | She sent them sweets sometimes , and several pairs of red socks she had knitted while she was waiting for a call at the ambulance station , and a photograph of herself in her uniform with a tin hat on . |
| 11 | He was waiting for a couple of soluble aspirin to break up in a glass of water as he stood before the opened mirror-cabinet . |
| 12 | Harvey suggested Morris go on down to the party ahead of him , as he was waiting for a partner : he had no wish to take Rupert Murdoch 's shilling , but he was happy to drink his champagne . |
| 13 | Andrew Dobbs , a building worker from Gloucester , was waiting for a plane back from Holland to Britain when he collapsed at Schipol airport near Amsterdam . |
| 14 | She was waiting for a boat , you understand . |
| 15 | Meanwhile the real Dustin Hoffman was waiting for a role to prove that he would have a post- Graduate career . |
| 16 | The 35-year-old Kurd from Turkey was waiting for a routine appointment in the Croydon Immigration Office in south London when he doused himself with petrol . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | The car was waiting in a side street . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |