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involved a fortnightly signing on procedure and, post operation [whilst still waiting for the result], I signed on as normal
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As I stood waiting on a deserted platform, a gang of youths appeared
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So there you are left in The Waiting Room living a life more akin to
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Oh yes, as a Positive Realist currently waiting for a steam train stood on the platform of Churchston Station
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Living a life of counting days in The Waiting Room leaves me with way too much time for pondering
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I wasn’t planning on having drinks with these two, not if my dad was waiting for me tonight
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something in the microwave, you set the timer for a minute and you stand there waiting, watching the food go around, waiting for it to, ding! That's time
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Instead of spending those couple minutes driving around waiting for
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As we sat there waiting for the meal to arrive, I remarked that the
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Earning for our food, rushing to work by various modes of transport, waiting in queues, communication using modern means, social responsibilities, all have been added to the man who was originally created to deal with only nature
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something in the microwave and stand there waiting, find a body weight
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“Like chains,” the boy said, and Hermann thought that maybe he was silently going mad just while waiting in the terminal
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Everyone she ever knew growing up was probably waiting there
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Underling was probably at the front of the room stalling for time, waiting for Henry to swoop in and save him with the report
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He didn’t have it yet, but sitting in the office waiting to speak to the principal, he knew he was going to get it
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As soon as we left, Millie hid under the bathroom sink with a flashlight, waiting for the mermaids
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“Are you going to stand in the elevator all day? We have important things to discuss,” Ackers chastised them, and then, without waiting for their response, he turned and started walking down the hall
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He was still waiting for the hotel coffee to kick in
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"Waiting for parts," the man said, rubbing his hands on an old rag
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Waiting for parts
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I’m still waiting for an apology
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He could have been close, just waiting for the details from the map
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She continued to cling to the wall, her feet and one hand used to hold her up, she still had her other sword strapped to her back, waiting for the opportunity to use it but feeling helpless without both weapons in her possession
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I was tired of waiting
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They'd had sex on the boat already while waiting for the next wagon, he'd commented on how lusty she'd become since he left for the Gengee fourteen decades ago
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After lunch Herndon paced, waiting for her sister's call, while she and Elond stayed at the patio table and chatted about social theory
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A counter divides the room into an office for the secretary and a small waiting area with a few chairs and a coffee table covered with magazines
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Zitteraal nods, walks away a few paces down the corridor, stands near the fire extinguisher, waiting
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The real strength was waiting patiently for her return wasn't it? As well as letting her know that he would be fine until then, and letting her know that her position with him was secure, though it was filled by a temp till then
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Emma’s obviously on the lookout for me as, by the time I have parked the car on her drive, turned the engine off and got the driver’s door open, she is waiting to give me a hug
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’ She added cheekily as we turn into the nursery gate and join the crowd of young mums and not-so-young grannies waiting to collect the infants
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Just waiting on the
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“Been a long time waiting for you, babe
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the ancient one was waiting for them
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The SNACK BAR ATTENDANT -- a middle-aged man from the Subcontinent in a stained white uniform -- languidly shoves a plate toward one customer, takes a drag off his cigarette, points slowly to another student in the gaggle of customers crushing around the counter waiting to be served
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The class falls silent, waiting
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suspected there were more thorny warriors waiting for him
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Mirielle still hadn't revealed what Theo was waiting to hear
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He was waiting for my
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customers, she is waiting
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They load the contraband onto waiting trucks
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It’s almost as though she’s waiting for the next blow to fall
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Russ, John and Khalid stand next to one of the trucks, talking, waiting
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Russ happily barks orders to workers, who load crates of moonshine on a waiting truck
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car will be waiting at the
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A drowned rat, he thought, a drowned rodent waiting out the
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an even more anxious major were standing on the platform waiting
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He leers at her as if waiting for her to say something
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lyzed, waiting for the moving of the water
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A guard steps up, puts a hood over Ricci’s head, leads him to the waiting executioner
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He dug in, waiting
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hand of God! He is waiting for you
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He became so good at sitting and watching and waiting that a
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Our taxi is waiting by the time we get to the front of the house just after one a
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Unless you've been there, you can't understand the knot this kind of waiting puts in your gut
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‘I’m just waiting for the potatoes to finish
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A tall German business man was waiting with his bags
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I have been waiting for you
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Your Almighty Healer is waiting for you to come in contact with His
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is waiting for you to choose a path
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They’ve stopped the bleeding and have set her arm … but they say it is just a question of waiting to see what happens when she comes round
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Start the way to the waiting place, which is on top of the hill
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Dante continues on the beach waiting, watching the sea,
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That bitch will laugh out of the other side of her face when she sees me waiting for her at the next stop with a steak knife aimed at her throat
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"Why are they just waiting there? Why aren’t they chasing Hardway and the battlegroup?
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Nevertheless, who knows what really awaits us after death, to the Other Side? Imagine some sort of aliens waiting there, ready to be fed with strong souls!” Alexander said at a moment, in a rather equivocal manner
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He spent those first seconds of knowing failure listening to the blood pump like crashing surf in his ears and waiting for the inevitable call from Horcheese in the cockpit
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’ She said over coffee in her kitchen one afternoon as I am waiting to lock up the hall after the dancing session
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Quickly dumping my toast in the kitchen, I wipe my fingers and hurry back to where she is waiting impatiently
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I cried for my parents waiting at the airport
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I hung on grimly, watching in the darkness through dimmed cow-eyes, waiting for that proverbial light at the end of this very real tunnel
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At the moment of contact, with The Kid waiting for a response, I asked for nothing much at all
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"What the eff are you waiting for?"
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There is a big party of friends waiting for us in the cafeteria; I can't say they are cool to me - at least they are not cooler than usual
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He placed them at the head of the mattress and then stood back, watching me, waiting like an expectant relative at a small child’s birthday party
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The magical moments of childhood infatuation lay shattered around my knees like broken shards of glass waiting for the blind man to stumble his bloody way to perdition
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Their pale blue constellation flew across the terminus again and held station there, waiting for the breaching ship and the junks
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The truck would idle for a moment, waiting for traffic to clear or for lights to change, and as the truck moved off I spat oaths of vengeance in my head, while I fought for breath through my clogged nose
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I sat quietly and meekly, waiting for the story to continue, waiting for Robbie to work himself into a righteous rage, waiting for the inevitable fist
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We both stood there for a moment, Menachem waiting, quiet and still, and me dancing a palsy of relief and joy
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We resigned ourselves to playing a waiting game, during which Menachem told me about the vagaries of his life, about how he never quite made any decisions, but through a word here and a mutual friend there, he had just gone with the flow
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We had no choice but to abandon our meagre collection of belongings as we were hooded and hurried down into another waiting van
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"We have to come back thru here on the way out," Ava said, "You don't want to wash out something and have someone waiting for you
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The locals, Demetriou and his sons waiting on customers, as one made the sign of the cross as she entered
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It was just a question of time, he thought, just a question of waiting
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waiting in the rain under a tree next to the river
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A drowned rat, he thought, a drowned rodent waiting out the flood in his shabby little nest, and yet he felt a certain thrill at the sight of this weedy little specimen, as though they were joined by an invisible umbilical cord
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Love is waiting there, in my beautiful balloon
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He became so good at sitting and watching and waiting that a local farmer who lived like a feudal lord in one of the bigger mountain villages employed him as a geriatric shepherd boy
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within you, waiting for you to awaken it
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‘He’s the younger of the two men who’ll be waiting for us, isn’t he?’ JJ asked, returning with her tea - of the two of them, he was the more jumpy
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Iain was standing staring out of the window into the garden, waiting for the kettle to boil when she appeared in the kitchen, dressed and ready to face whatever the day had to throw at her
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consider that it may have a more optimal outcome waiting
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It went straight for a few metres then turned through what was virtually a right angle … a bend that would make it virtually impossible to see who might be waiting around the corner
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It is upon our waiting, our silence, and our going down that we do more, speak more, and are exalted higher
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had a lover in waiting,
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The door opened and Berndt appeared again; clearly he had been listening outside, waiting for this moment
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Sitting there waiting for his chance
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It fluttered above her head, cawing irritably, waiting for her to give it a perching place
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‘Sorry to keep you waiting, lady
