Example sentences of "[is] waiting for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Read Ubu , and you can see the connections with Samuel Beckett 's Waiting for Godot , and Ionesco 's The Chairs and The Bald Prima Donna . |
| 2 | Everyone 's waiting for what might happen with arts subsidies . |
| 3 | Janey 's waiting for the washing up and then she 's off . ’ |
| 4 | Marie looks at me like she 's waiting for me to say something . |
| 5 | I spect he 's waiting for a train . |
| 6 | Tony 's waiting for his Pot Noodles so I 'd better be off . |
| 7 | MacArthur 's waiting for word and then we 'll be on our way , do n't you fret yourself , Jim , son . ’ |
| 8 | Phillis said , ‘ Rab 's waiting for the doctor . ’ |
| 9 | Pyke 's waiting for me . ’ |
| 10 | Pyke 's waiting for me . ’ |
| 11 | He 's waiting for you now . ’ |
| 12 | All he 's waiting for is his number to come up . |
| 13 | ‘ Listen , Gurder 's waiting for us and we do n't want any more trouble — ‘ |
| 14 | ‘ No ; she 's not married yet ; I think she 's waiting for you . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ Hannah 's waiting for us . ’ |
| 16 | In 1955 London theatre saw Samuel Beckett 's Waiting for Godot , a play composed first in French and later in English by a detribalised Irishman living in Paris , and theatrical minimalism was suddenly the rage . |
| 17 | He 's waiting for you at Brown 's Hotel . ’ |
| 18 | He 's waiting for you at the Burlington airstrip . |
| 19 | She 's waiting for you in Santa Fe . |
| 20 | The Secretary-General 's waiting for the doctor 's report before coming to a decision . ’ |
| 21 | No doubt the whole neighbourhood 's waiting for me to make an honest woman of you . " |
| 22 | I 'm late , and she 's waiting for me . |
| 23 | The ticket 's waiting for me at the desk . |
| 24 | ‘ And there 's a passenger who 's waiting for you . |
| 25 | ‘ He 's worried about Gairloch so he 's waiting for the vet . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ This one 's waiting for a guy to come back from some big-shit business deal . |
| 27 | And er he 's already he 's already got you at a disadvantage , by er er you 're on the move and he 's waiting for you . |
| 28 | ‘ Now you know I 've no right to be here , ’ she said , ‘ I want you to know what 's waiting for me if ever I get taken back . |
| 29 | He knows he is behaving well , that his behaviour slots precisely , with a well-oiled click , into the space in the universe that 's waiting for it . |
| 30 | Well that 's fine for Elizabeth but Catherine 's sort of half left school , if she has n't she 's waiting for her G C S Es and she 's not sure whether she 's got to go back or what she 's doing . |