Example sentences of "waiting for the [noun sg] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Downstairs , Elsie Hogan , the bloom of youth scoured from her skeleton , lay waiting for the haemorrhage that would end it all . |
| 2 | She clapped her hands over her ears waiting for the water that was almost upon them , aware of the damage it was going to cause . |
| 3 | Waiting for the ball and |
| 4 | She realised he must be going through some kind of hell waiting for the rime when he could let all his suppressed urges out . |
| 5 | In particular , I was waiting for the hedgehog that made its nest at the end of our garden last autumn to come back to life . |
| 6 | Others stand nearby , waiting for the invitation that will never come totally unconditionally . |
| 7 | Every morning since the new treatment had started he had been wakened to the thermometer and a medicine glass , half-full of a yellow , foul-tasting mixture that curdled in his stomach and sat there all day in a poisonous knot , waiting for the smell and taste of food to release its venom again . |
| 8 | Whole rooms of the Turk 's Head were taken over by bits of fairground waiting for the revival that would send Uncle Titch and Grandad chortling off to the local branch of the Co-op . |
| 9 | From now on we shall not hang around our side of the Front , waiting for the foe and getting shot down by the French artillery . |
| 10 | Kreig passed the woman without a sound , without a breeze , climbing like a rocket to Exit 347 , where she hung , waiting for the woman and Ardamal to catch up . |
| 11 | When I returned to the laibon 's village with the paperwork , he was looking out towards Ol Doinyo Lengai waiting for the sound and the dust and the cries of his cattle coming back . |
| 12 | As a general rule , when the demand for a resource is such that it is allocated for two thirds of the available time , then programs spend twice as long waiting for the resource as using it . |
| 13 | I came out of the forces , he was only waiting for the time that I came out , for him to retire . |
| 14 | Opened by another Mr Perkins who was staying at the same hotel , the package was passed to police who were ready and waiting for the actor when he arrived at the hotel in Cardiff . |
| 15 | He did n't spare Schmidt a glance ; his eyes held Culley 's , waiting for the glint that betrays sudden movement . |
| 16 | They were waiting for the lift when they saw a man come hurrying in through the swing doors . |
| 17 | I said of course you were deep in domesticity and waiting for the baby and she said that was what so many good students seemed to be choosing these days … " |
| 18 | They were standing on the jetty with a score of chattering women , waiting for the launch that would take them to the depot ship Omega . |
| 19 | Shifts split up the family so that men would be coming in at all hours of the day , waiting for the bath-tin and the water and a woman to wash their backs . |