Example sentences of "have [be] waiting [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jenny Pitman is another who has been waiting for the rain before releasing a very strong team . |
| 2 | An anxious mother has been waiting by the telephone to hear if her son faces a long jail term in India . |
| 3 | Luke and Sonny knew he was coming on the afternoon train ; they should have been waiting at the railway station with the horse and trap . |
| 4 | Whoever it was must have been waiting by the telephone for the call . |
| 5 | At best , he should have been waiting until the morning and then politely requesting a desk and a telephone and an interpreter somewhere in the back reaches of their Counter-Terrorism building . |
| 6 | On his return Geoffrey should have been waiting in the wings to assist him into his pirate coat — the hook attached to the sleeve rendered it cumbersome . |
| 7 | The gunman is believed to have been waiting for the women and chidren to come out of the shop . |
| 8 | Afterwards , he felt it had been as if each of them had been waiting for the other to touch on a delicate subject . |
| 9 | He had been waiting for the spirit warrior his father had told him of in infancy , the One-Eyed White Girl . |
| 10 | Miss Gregg told detectives her mother had been waiting for the handyman to call at the time of her death . |
| 11 | It was as if a sick national organism had been waiting for the right , suitably appalling , symptom to erupt into general protest at its fate . |
| 12 | On her return , Michel had been waiting on the platform with a gun in his hand but could not bring himself to shoot . |
| 13 | Essentially those who felt themselves to be excluded from power decided to support a perfectly plausible claimant to the throne who had been waiting on the sidelines for such a following to materialize . |
| 14 | The child 's corpse must have been loaded onto some form of transport that had been waiting beyond the yard . |
| 15 | The man got into the lift with her after he had been waiting in the foyer . |
| 16 | While she went to brew coffee Fletcher introduced Patrick and Chris to the man who had been waiting in the sitting room . |
| 17 | We 've been waiting for the knight in shining armour and then there is n't one . |
| 18 | Well , we 've been waiting for the protractors , we have n't been |
| 19 | I 've been waiting for the battery to run down . |
| 20 | But most of us have been waiting for the results of the Concorde trial . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ It 's as if people have been waiting for the Autumn Statement . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ Police have been waiting at the top to take the things off them . ’ |
| 23 | But actually it does n't tell you anything about the quality of the care which they 're purchasing and the evidence that we are getting increasingly from the community health council is the experience of people of the health service is that actually the quality of the care is getting worse and this is not due to the staff in the health ee the more detailed plans coming to the next meeting of the e the more detailed plans coming to the next meeting of the for an operation er , four years , it should to be said er , she 's been waiting despite the government 's claim that all operations are done within two years er for very severe varicose veins and surprisingly enough she got them because of course most varicose have been removed her , the north-east Thames region erm , and er she turned up on the Wednesday and the operation had been postponed twice previously er , she was er gone through all the er , various tests which took her four hours cos she had to find all the places herself , there was nobody to show her to X-ray and various other places erm she was prepared for the op and then was sent home because there was n't a bed available ! |