Sentence examples for waiting to set from inspiring English sources

Here a group of idle young people sit in the fogbound Victoria Station Hotel while the masses seethe below them, waiting to set out on a continental holiday.

You're out there waiting to set up, and the whole time somebody is talking to you, somebody is yelling at you or insulting you or trying to get you to laugh.

In the end, it didn't matter so much that England, under the guidance of their unflappable fly-half Jonny Wilkinson, his fists pushed forward as if eternally waiting to set up some volleyball spike that never arrives, edged the final.

Now Mr. Paterson — sitting until mid-March in the drowsy stillness of the lieutenant governor's office, with not much to do and certainly no transition team waiting to set up an administration — has shown that he was paying attention all along.

Labour's shadow minister for women and equalities, Gloria De Piero, said it was "fantastic news for so many couples who have been waiting to set a date for their wedding".

Someone approaching Avalon Bay today is viewing more or less the same picture-postcard scene sailboats moored in a crescent cove, the whitewashed houses and hotels of Avalon perching above like layers of a wedding cake that throughout the 1930s and '40s drew ships filled with revelers bound for the giant Casino, where the likes of Woody Herman and Harry James were waiting to set them swinging.

GOING to sea in a violent storm in January would not appeal to many people, but Redmond O'Hanlon could not wait to set sail.

If you file for an extension, you can wait to set up the plan and put the money in by the extended filing deadline.

The person said that would most likely be as late as the board could or would want to wait to set a strike date.

And even though the effect is generally to depress the theater and keep audiences away, theater producers continue to use critics' quotes in newspaper ads, and wait to set a marketing strategy until the reviews come in.

I can scarcely wait to set up my display case, full of miniature traffic cones, miniature yellow construction vehicles and miniature overhead signs that light up with the words "Long Delays Ahead".