Example sentences of "waiting [prep] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | PENNSYLVANIA governor Robert Casey , 61 , who is waiting for a heart-and-liver transplant , is continuing his duties from his hospital room . |
| 3 | ‘ For many years we have been waiting for a mighty star to appear in the heavens and now it has . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Within days of Israel 's victory , Shehadeh had suggested to senior Israelis that they should permit the West Bank to declare an independent Palestinian state forthwith , without waiting for a political settlement with the rest of the Arab world . |
| 6 | A PATIENT waiting for a heart-lung transplant was beaten up by a gang outside a Chinese takeaway . |
| 7 | She wrote : ‘ My mum is waiting for a heart-lung transplant . |
| 8 | In contrast , Scottish Enterprise and the Scottish Office were keeping tight-lipped and waiting for a final decision to be made known today or tomorrow . |
| 9 | There had been a good deal of rain , the Thames was high , and a north-westerly had piled up water at the river 's mouth , waiting for a strong flood tide to carry it up . |
| 10 | Further details will reach you just as soon as they reach us … we 're STILL waiting for a finished version of Hook , ‘ coz we refuse to write full reviews from pre-production , half-finished disks ! |
| 11 | Where is the Wagon Train that seemed permanently to be circling its wagons waiting for a drunken pioneer 's wife to have twins in the last of them ? |
| 12 | The police had only recently organized a stake-out in a house just down the road , watching and waiting for a serial murderer to call in at his mother 's council flat to collect his laundry . |
| 13 | They forgot about Tavett and moved on to discuss Pascoe and how , when they came to think of it , he had looked very like a man waiting for a major heart attack . |
| 14 | 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 ? |
| 15 | There 's a set up that checks a certain amount of areas and then blanks it otherwise you could be sitting there for hours waiting for a new Con activity so you just chew them off bit by bit . |
| 16 | It was much more the sheer vitality and range of committed ability , lay and clerical , present in the Church at that time and just waiting for a new lead . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Wall Street is not holding its breath waiting for a new deal . |
| 19 | Pamela winced , waiting for a vicious crack in return but none came . |
| 20 | Should treatment be withheld and the available donor organs donated to ‘ more suitable ’ patients or should such ill patients be actively treated while waiting for a suitable donor organ , thus leading to a potential increase in the number of stable patients likely to deteriorate while awaiting ‘ elective ’ transplantation ? |
| 21 | Currently , with strong competition from many units throughout Europe for available organs , many patients similar to those described herein would die waiting for a suitable donor organ . |
| 22 | Such an approach enables active work to go on at all times , including those when no change of placement is contemplated or during periods of waiting for a suitable placement to become available . |
| 23 | ‘ I have been waiting for a long time to get my hands on this one ’ , a review of Nicolson by Kingsley Amis began . |
| 24 | Jack watched the guard dialling and then waiting for a nerve-stretching length of time . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | But in fact he was waiting for a different kind of photograph , a different kind of confirmation . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Charles reproved her for rushing on ahead of his story , and told her about this Sergeant lurking within like a spider waiting for a juicy fly . |
| 29 | In the ornate new council chamber , Mayor Murphy was trying to convince the city council that to be a real Edwardian Mayor he ought to wear mayoral robes , as they did in England ; the newly extended hospital was bracing itself for additional accident cases ; and Hank Stych stood in the airport at Calgary waiting for a local plane to take him north to Tollemarche . |
| 30 | The advantages of being able to run baits out to any spot within range of your radio signal are obvious even to an objector and to sit on a reservoir bank as electro-man catches pike on free-lined herrings at 200 yards , whilst my weapon hangs limp in the still air waiting for a stiff breeze has been frustrating . |