Example sentences of "is waiting [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Kowalik is waiting for a telephone call from Ipswich and will come straight over if requested . |
| 2 | Well I feel erm really that we should have a little bit more compassion amongst ourselves as women and when I had my first child I had a very good friend who went through the pregnancy with me who is waiting for a child to arrive by adoption , and she had the baby a couple of months after I had my baby . |
| 3 | Home care for the stroke patient may be chosen because the patient 's doctor feels that the necessary rehabilitation can be done at home , or might be best done at home ; the patient may be more comfortable , and therefore more co-operative to treatment if he remains among familiar surroundings ; he might be liable to excessive stress if parted from his close family , friends or a beloved pet ; or it may be a temporary situation , in which the patient is waiting for a bed in a specialist rehabilitation unit to become available . |
| 4 | THE oldest one in the book is waiting for a corner and treading on everyone 's toes on a freezing January day . |
| 5 | This process , a little like blood-grouping , is used to match tissues from a donor with the tissues of a prospective patient who is waiting for a kidney transplant . |
| 6 | In future all organs recovered in Scotland will be used here except in cases where no-one is waiting for an operation , when the organs will be used elsewhere in Britain . |
| 7 | At that particular time I would n't tell them anything , all my all at that particular time is waiting for an appointment to see them . |
| 8 | As I pull up at the back of the hotel Mr Shah is waiting with a folder full ; his expression , although friendly , contains around his mouth a little reproach that I should have been away from the action for so long . |
| 9 | ‘ And we 're the highest ground of all , so we can see if anyone is waiting on a roof for an ambush . ’ |