Example sentences of "[noun pl] waiting on " in BNC.
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| 1 | I saw Mr Callaghan come down the steps of his plane , stop at the foot and greet the throng of journalists waiting on the tarmac to question him about the current discontents . |
| 2 | Returning aircraft always had their own ground crews waiting on the air field ready to assist in case of trouble , and relations between air and ground crews were of the highest possible standard . |
| 3 | There is a substantial crowd of Schillings contemporaries waiting on library shelves awaiting discovery , and I am sure Marco Polo will bring us some of these . |
| 4 | They had come back as a fleet , their sails bellying out under the south-westerly gale , the men shouting to each other across the water to compare catches , and their womenfolk waiting on the beach to help with the unloading and to make a start on the gutting and salting and packing . |
| 5 | " It 's no fun waiting five or ten minutes to play every shot and to find two or three groups waiting on every tee . |
| 6 | Mike spent more than 30 days waiting on one or other of the platforms , and it was not until the last day that the colobus monkeys came close enough for him to get good shots of them moving through the trees . |
| 7 | At Sutton Bridge there were fathers and relatives waiting on the platform to greet us … |
| 8 | It did n't feel like it , in spite of the decorations she had put up with such care , and the pile of letters and parcels waiting on the table to be opened tomorrow morning . |
| 9 | Examine a British crowd of passengers waiting on a cold platform for a train that should have arrived long ago . |
| 10 | MOORFIELDS station evacuated after passengers waiting on platform two for Northern line service to Southport saw sparks erupt from track as train approached . |
| 11 | I looked up , a mouthful of harees waiting on my fingers . |
| 12 | The taxi-drivers waiting on the rank looked knowingly at the racing pages of evening papers folded into quarters , ready to suggest to uncertain fares the addresses of drinking clubs and prostitutes . |
| 13 | Just why a partner or a member of the family is so opposed to certain changes is hard to fathom but since the Full Moon on the 14th cuts right across the home and career angles of your horoscope , you may have to turn your full attention to work matters for a while and leave property or domestic issues waiting on hold until towards end the of the month . |
| 14 | There were half a dozen cards waiting on the mat , and a couple of letters . |