Example sentences of "[pers pn] was waiting " in BNC.
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| 1 | My inclination to reject law as a possible course was incomprehensible to many , and while I was waiting to go to university I was constantly challenged about this . |
| 2 | I was waiting for Professor Avenarius whom I 'd occasionally met here for a chat . |
| 3 | Once , I was waiting at the bus stop one Sunday with my bags packed ready to go to Sheffield when Otley came running up : ‘ Do n't you want to see Fragile Earth ? |
| 4 | I remember excusing this by saying that I was waiting for the police and that nothing should be touched until they had come . |
| 5 | I told him I was waiting for my boyfriend , and he got back in his car but still sat there , looking at me . |
| 6 | The language I studied much later , when I was waiting in Italy at the end of the war . |
| 7 | I was waiting for death . ’ |
| 8 | The interval bell sounded , and soon I was waiting for Jock to introduce me , and striding on . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Anyway , I was waiting for the Norwich train to come in . ’ |
| 11 | Early in October , with the exact date of the premiere not vet set , but intended to be some time between 25 November and 10 December , John wrote again to Hanns : ‘ Million sorries for not writing sooner , but I was waiting for ( a ) Thursday , the official scrutinization of my ballet to see if it definitely would go on , and ( b ) Friday , the first night of Miss Howes 's show . |
| 12 | While I was waiting for my companions to stir , I put water on to boil , but soon noticed that the stove had given up . |
| 13 | I was waiting one night for a bus from South Kensington to Fulham when two of them , who obviously had had one or two over the eight came towards me . |
| 14 | While I was waiting , a customer came in with a bullet wound in his chest . |
| 15 | I was waiting for him to say they were drugged to keep them quiet — their huge eyes blinked as if they were half asleep . |
| 16 | ‘ I was waiting for that ! ’ |
| 17 | When it was time to leave and I was waiting for the car to take me back to the station for the journey back , I have to confess that I shed a tear or two . |
| 18 | ‘ And there I was waiting for you , in such a state ever since Kukrit came back late from the airport and said he 'd missed you , ’ Jeremy replies , suggesting with automatic but irrelevant chivalry that they are lovers separated from their tryst with one another . |
| 19 | While I was waiting for him , an assistant approached and asked if she could help . |
| 20 | Listening to Friends on the album , I was waiting for it to modulate to a minor key in the middle … |
| 21 | I was waiting for The Headless Horseman Three … |
| 22 | ‘ But all that day and the next few days I was waiting for someone to come in . |
| 23 | I was waiting for you to gong me , ’ he told police . |
| 24 | ‘ being a common prostitute ’ Proof of this point must be available to negate any defence of accident or mistake , e.g. ‘ That I was waiting for my boy friend or taxi etc . ’ |
| 25 | While I was waiting in the car ( I thought the men would only be a few moments ) , Alan suddenly appeared at the window . |
| 26 | There was an old knitting machine up there which beckoned me to keep myself occupied while I was waiting to hear about my appeal . |
| 27 | At first Dawn would attempt to continue beyond the far perch where I was waiting , instead of landing on my glove . |
| 28 | I was waiting for you . |
| 29 | The Inspector left it at that and as I was waiting expectantly for the interview to end , he said : ‘ Why does an educated man like you spend his time caddying ? |
| 30 | I wanted to put a a morning on when I realised there was problems here just a morning an open morning which would of brought probably nine hundred thousand pounds into this building , in July I came in to try to see the Director of the playhouse I could n't go through the written way because I was waiting for exam date to come through . |