When I first saw her she was waiting in the wings, as it were.

Already, at least three major investors are waiting in the wings.

Analysts and others say it is waiting in the wings.

A number of Africans are known to be waiting in the wings for a call.

The publisher's candidate had been waiting in the wings for about a month.

The city's many other orchestras just may be waiting in the wings.

Her proposed successor has been waiting in the wings for over a year.

For the winners, many honors will be waiting in the wings.

Major messages may be waiting in the wings, but they will have to wait till next season.

If the plan is scrapped, other ideas are waiting in the wings.

Our competitors around the world are waiting in the wings to supply what we no longer produce.

That has not cooled speculation about who might be waiting in the wings.

For when the old names, some barely clinging to life, finally let go, someone must be waiting in the wings.

If the political atmosphere changes, or another energy crisis strikes, the program would be waiting in the wings.

As ever at regional theaters, producers are waiting in the wings.

Browning was waiting in the wings for the outcome of the conference.

A new comedy wave, I suppose, is waiting in the wings.

Someone else is waiting in the wings to shatter all precedent.

Jefferson's executive officer had been waiting in the wings for his cue.

An ordinary blue and white cooler filled with more ice was waiting in the wings.

Like someone who has been waiting in the wings the whole time and takes just a single step forward to appear and play his part.

Now a new developer is waiting in the wings.

No one at her label would confirm that other styles are waiting in the wings.

"As one chain goes out, another is waiting in the wings to step in."

The fact that a lot of potential borrowers are waiting in the wings is putting pressure on rates.

So the best companies are still waiting in the wings.

Maybe the time had come for me to stop waiting in the wings.

But then again, who knows what they both have waiting in the wings?

When I first saw her she was waiting in the wings, as it were.

They've had me waiting in the wings all these years just for this moment.

Of course, it had been there through the long day, waiting in the wings.

No more waiting in the wings for the lead to get sick.

Already, at least three major investors are waiting in the wings.

There was still something even more powerful waiting in the wings.

"I'm just waiting in the wings to see if they need me again," Brown said.

Because there are plenty of others waiting in the wings.

There will be plenty of people waiting in the wings.

Analysts and others say it is waiting in the wings.

I am last on the agenda after waiting in the wings for over an hour.

And there's a whole wave of them waiting in the wings.

And there was no rescue force waiting in the wings.

He just hoped they had somebody better waiting in the wings.

The only thing waiting in the wings to make a debut was the food.

But waiting in the wings is an even more important battery of cases.

And I've got my two men waiting in the wings for backup if things go wrong.

A number of Africans are known to be waiting in the wings for a call.

Not that big, from where I stand, waiting in the wings with my guitar.

"But there's nobody waiting in the wings to take over."

Waiting in the wings, however, was an eager new corporate home.

"There's always a more challenging one waiting in the wings."

Even so, customer satisfaction may be a criterion lurking in the wings.

But with Rodney lurking in the wings, that wouldn't be wise.

I assume the changes are, if anything, the effect of this entity you tell me is still lurking in the wings."

It would seem that you have some undesirable dietary habits lurking in the wings.

But some world-famous players were lurking in the wings.

The muse of satire was lurking in the wings.

Many unforeseen dangers may be lurking in the wings.

A number of technical things go wrong behind the scenes and a suspicious-looking figure is seen lurking in the wings.

Jeb, suppressing a slight smile, is lurking in the wings.

The euro debt crisis is still lurking in the wings with all the charisma of an angel of death.

But the spectre of Beth Jordache is always lurking in the wings.

By the time the revolution of 1958 overthrew the monarchy, the Baath party and Saddam were lurking in the wings.

I would hasten to point out that there is not, lurking in the wings, any plan to aluminum-side any of these buildings."

Or maybe-and this is strictly my idea-there's another Walton merchant lurking in the wings somewhere down the line.

He said there was "nothing dramatic lurking in the wings," and said he expected the system to be ready "very, very soon."

Once she was in the next room, and the door closed behind her, Spock said loudly, for the servants lurking in the wings, "Leave us."

Victor, lurking in the wings, was about to ring down the final curtain on the drama of the Phillimore pearls.

That was why the very un-American figure of Max Weber was lurking in the wings.

As to how Mr. Quayle handles pressure and adversity, ever lurking in the wings of public life, the election campaign just ended was especially instructive.

Still lurking in the wings is Gennadi Zyuganov, 52, the Communist Party leader.

(Someone, lurking in the wings, even tells the heroine to "knock 'em dead," as she pulls herself together and prepares to brave center stage.)

Lurking in the wings: poignant awareness of that grand-opera tragedy of our time, the AIDS crisis."

Some observers said that only Disney, with its robust balance sheet and its ambitious new president, Michael Ovitz, was still lurking in the wings.