Example sentences of "waiting for the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not waiting for the official Alpha launch on November 10 , DEC had Jensen , its Alpha AXP personal computer prototype , out at Net World in Dallas last week . |
| 2 | Snuggled on my mother 's knee on the fire-side rocker , waiting for the black kettle to boil on the hob , I could smell the dinner cooking in the coal-fired oven ; only the cat , nestling in the plate-warmer , could have been any more cosy . |
| 3 | I was waiting for the other half when Oliver fled . |
| 4 | Each army , it seemed , lay in its own sodden , rat infested dug-outs for days , sometimes months , waiting for the other side to make a move . |
| 5 | Or — and this thought only occurred to me when I was out on the street and running for the hill as fast as I could — as if there was something else behind his eyes , looking out at the world , waiting for the awful moment when it would start to take apart our little corner of the planet , piece by shabby piece . |
| 6 | She says she 's still waiting for the right man . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ You were waiting for the right person . ’ |
| 8 | He only sipped : tense , waiting for the right opening . |
| 9 | Bryan Gould is as good as gold and Gerald Kaufman is a happy-go-lucky bachelor who 's still waiting for the right girl to come along . |
| 10 | Kept in touch with him , waiting for the right occasion to use him . |
| 11 | He has been waiting for the right offer for some time after turning down an approach from Italian club Pisa several seasons ago . |
| 12 | Peter Swales : ‘ waiting for the right offer ’ to stand down at Maine Road |
| 13 | Every girl in New York who is not a singer is only waiting for the right break to come along so she can get to be one . |
| 14 | Then nearly five more , waiting for the right time — God 's time to come out . |
| 15 | But much of Operation Gemini is about surveilance , observing known criminals and waiting for the right time to move in and make arrests , of which there have been more than a hundred and twenty since the operation started four weeks ago . |
| 16 | The banks have been hostile to the plans from the beginning but had been waiting for the right moment to withdraw on commercial rather than political grounds . |
| 17 | John Delaney knew now that all along it had been hunting them , that it was still hunting them , waiting for the right moment to pick them off at will , one at a time . |
| 18 | Although the City has recommended for the past year that Quality go public , the company has been waiting for the right moment . |
| 19 | Choosing the best time to buy is not always possible , and sometimes the inconvenience of waiting for the right moment can cause more trouble than any financial saving may by worth . |
| 20 | Huy had delayed telling Merymose about Surere , waiting for the right moment to come . |
| 21 | I 'm waiting for the right moment . ’ |
| 22 | I was waiting for the right moment to find out just how deeply your were involved with Elise . |
| 23 | Christie 's have got it and they 're just waiting for the right sale . |
| 24 | Additionally , less electricity is used and the chef wastes no time waiting for the correct temperature to be reached . |
| 25 | Waiting for the inescapable shout of discovery . |
| 26 | For , so the story went , Pan Chao had decapitated Kan Ying there and then and sent his body back to Rome where it had lain out in the open in the great square , slowly rotting , waiting for the young Emperor , Ho Ti 's triumphal entry into the city three years later . |
| 27 | I 'm waiting for the hot water , mm |
| 28 | Given the benefit of hindsight , Scotland could have done with a more demanding opening and might also have deployed the likes of Murry Walker and Carl Hogg first out , instead of waiting for the taxing fixture against Nadroga . |
| 29 | All my men were dressed as doctors , — with their white smocks , their dangling stethoscopes , their talk and their laughter and their cigarettes , waiting for the familiar volley of shouts and thumps from within . |
| 30 | However I managed to find Mr Jaggers ' office , noticing that other people were waiting for the great man too . |