Example sentences of "while waiting for a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Brown was freed while waiting for a decision on the appeal . |
| 2 | Problems have arisen at King 's College Hospital , London , where large numbers of patients have had to wait on trolleys for up to 30 hours in the accident and emergency unit while waiting for a bed . |
| 3 | He disappeared from a parking lot while waiting for a Mafia contact , from where flashbacks of his past are reconstructed . |
| 4 | There was the famous occasion when he picked at a wall behind a bus stop while waiting for a bus and found a rare specimen fossil ; and the occasion when he cut his leg while climbing a rockface at Craigleith Quarry and failed to notice it until his Wellington boot was full of blood , whereupon he drove to the nearest hospital for stitches and a transfusion . |
| 5 | However , facing into the wind while waiting for a launch , a tyre on the wing-tip is just a convenient way of preventing the wing from lifting off the ground . |
| 6 | While waiting for a reply , Franco decided to make a direct appeal to Hitler on the Nazi Party network , through certain members of the German business community in Morocco . |
| 7 | It was while waiting for a train on Uxbridge Station that the sight of a poster for the Tower Furnishing Company inspired W. S. Gilbert to write The Yeomen of the Guard . |
| 8 | The girl , who was pounced on while waiting for a train at Mexborough , South Yorkshire , was treated in hospital for head wounds . |
| 9 | It is estimated that over 30 species have become extinct while waiting for a listing . |
| 10 | HIGHLY-publicised incidents of patients who die on trolleys in accident and emergency units while waiting for a hospital bed are the rare consequences of the extreme pressure under which most units work . |
| 11 | While waiting for a flight she was asked to do some translating at one of the jungle lodges . |
| 12 | DARLINGTON Memorial Hospital managers are still investigating claims that a 90year-old woman was forgotten for three hours while waiting for an operation . |
| 13 | While waiting for an ambulance it is possible that first aid carried out immediately would save a patient from choking or bleeding to death . |
| 14 | Sarah Hunt , 74 , was left soaked in blood after holding her sister for at least 25 minutes while waiting for an ambulance to arrive after the tragedy in Bishop Auckland . |
| 15 | But of this she said nothing , watched Tina putting her cake into the filthiest , blackest , greasiest oven she had ever seen , while waiting for an answer to one of her rare inquiries . |