Sentence examples for and waiting in a from inspiring English sources

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If I'm tired and waiting in a line at an airport with the band, it really helps to bend over and get the circulation going.

At 2 30 p.m. on Sunday, the scheduled start of the Louis Vuitton show, 52 models were dressed and waiting in a line backstage.

I, and I suspect others, would give up "seat choice" in exchange for less standing and waiting in a narrow jetway or aisle while one person locks up the boarding to juggle luggage in the overhead rack.

They have generally spent a lot of time standing and waiting in a pen, sometimes in the rain, praying they will be able to identify "the talent" in the passing traffic of bow ties and designer gowns.

Goold takes some liberties, beginning the evening with the image of a small boy sitting quite alone, watching and waiting, in a derelict building (in fact the pub setting for The Weir) and Ray Lett's design sets the piece firmly in a familiar rural Irish landscape of rocky outcrops and tumbledown stone walls, rather than the traditional blasted no-man's land.

Yet I'm already starting to feel nostalgic about being hustled downstairs, past the whiff of musty old books in the Bank's archives, and waiting in a hushed cellar for the speaking clock to declare that it's twelve noon and the ladies and gentlemen of the press can reveal to the world that –gasp!

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Patients talked at some length about how they accessed general practice, a process usually requiring a negotiation with a receptionist to make an appointment, although sometimes by turning up and waiting in an open surgery.

They changed flight plans and waited in a thunderstorm.

I arrived before he did, and waited in a hallway between two conference rooms.

The staff is service-minded and quick — customers take a number, and wait in a line that never stalls.

Bonell arrived a few minutes before McCartney did and waited in a small kitchen adjoining the control room.

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