Sentence examples for had been loitering from inspiring English sources

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Eleven had been loitering on a corner, including a Reuters cameraman.

The video shows a Transportation Security Administration officer ask the man, who had been loitering in front of him, to move away from the secure area.

She told him that three teen-age boys had been loitering nearby all afternoon, and that she suspected them of having been involved in stealing the family's car.

The proprietress, who had been loitering around the nearby tables checking on the soy-sauce bottles, perked up despite the man's hushed voice.

Get the baby!" Woman 2 motioned to a man who had been loitering in the car park, who then entered the office holding up a baby.

Suddenly, a man who had been loitering strangely nearby charged toward him, then there was liquid in his face and unbearable pain.

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The Italian champion, who has been loitering near the front of the pack all day, has shot away into the distance.

At the start of the novel, she is called in by the police to assess Michael Doll, a disturbed man who has been loitering near a school.

For days, people have been loitering outside his house, leaving him concerned it "could easily make this place look like a dealer's house".

For weeks, a gaggle of 40 or so journalists has been loitering for nine hours a day in the hope of a verdict — or even just a clue — to the fate of the fallen Anglo-Canadian press baron Conrad Black.

Moments after establishing a ceasefire in the chicken coop, my two cats (who had watched the chicken fight with barely concealed glee) noticed that a cute stray cat who has been loitering at our front door had made her way down to watch the festivities.

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