Sentence examples for were queueing for from inspiring English sources

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For My Merry Mornings, republished in February 1990, "people were queueing for a mile from Wenceslas Square," says Tomsky.

McFeat wrote that his Kyrgyz colleagues were queueing for their "special delicacy, the horse's penis" during holiday celebrations, referring to a traditional horse sausage known as chuchuk.

Men of the King's Own were queueing for their breakfasts on a road when they suffered their first experience of modern warfare.

I visited the busiest polling station this afternoon, and in mid-afternoon there were hundreds - particularly of young voters - who were queueing for an hour and a half to vote, and I think it is just not right that hundreds later found themselves unable to exercise their right when the polls closed.

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Along the road at the Palace Theatre they were queuing for Singin' in the Rain.

The show was a sell-out; people were queuing for returns.

(At David Zwirner on Wednesday night, punters were queuing for the Koons show as though it was a rock concert).

Consumers who were queuing for tickets were encouraged to send photos from their phones to a giant screen adorned with branding for its Robinsons line of soft drinks.

Yesterday there was a suicide bombing outside the headquarters of the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate (pictured) in Damascus that killed four people who were queuing for food.

People were queuing for an unusual delicacy: balls of butter, dipped in dough and cooked in a vat of boiling oil.

People were queuing for an hour just to put £10 of fuel in.

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