Example sentences of "[noun] they had [be] [v-ing] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Maybe this was the break they had been waiting for . |
| 2 | There was restrained optimism among Wickham 's team that this could be the lead they had been waiting for . |
| 3 | For her parents Fran and Les , it was the day they had been waiting for . |
| 4 | By the time Iran had attacked a Kuwaiti , a Saudi and then a Liberian tanker ( the last of these caught near the principal Saudi terminal at Ras Tanura ) , the GCC states had begun to recognize this sequence — as it was doubtless intended — as a signal to distance themselves from Iraq in the light of the support they had been providing for Baghdad . |
| 5 | Bernard and Laura escaped on to their sailing boat for much of the summer , a yacht they had been enjoying for some years now , and they pottered around Mykonos in Greece . |
| 6 | The parents were outraged ; the managers had got the opportunity they had been waiting for . |
| 7 | Tom Dawson had hovered on the brink between life and death , and all the time they had worked so desperately to save him , she had been aware that it was n't just one life they had been fighting for but two . |
| 8 | A crowd of eager customers would be awaiting his arrival outside the shops and attack him for the particular colour , size or style of dress they had been waiting for . |
| 9 | Having accepted the ground rules , all the Grants appreciated and relished a structure that allowed a degree of communication they had been missing for years . |
| 10 | They first told police they had been hunting for foxes . |
| 11 | The broad effect of the Act was to enable societies to offer the extended range of services they had been lobbying for . |