Example sentences of "[verb] [be] wait [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He has been waiting two years for a donor and carries a bleeper everywhere — waiting for the call telling him one has been found at last . |
| 2 | World War 1 veteran Mr Brownbill has been waiting two years to see if his application for a house renovation grant would be successful . |
| 3 | World War I veteran Mr Brownbill has been waiting two years to see if his application for a house renovation grant would be successful . |
| 4 | No , he wrote , because Diana herself does not acknowledge either that she has been waiting all her life for him to appear . |
| 5 | ‘ Pretty much what happened was that I 'd been waiting all this time to be successful , to achieve whatever I was going to achieve , now I had and I was sitting in this flippin' hotel thinking : This is not where it 's at . |
| 6 | She 'd been waiting all her life for this man , this moment . |
| 7 | Halfway outbound in the hold the scheduled traffic for which we 'd been waiting landed , and we swooped down , just catching the ILS . |
| 8 | In this country they say that if you do n't like the weather all you have to do is wait five minutes and it will get better . |
| 9 | We had been waiting all Genesis for words like those . |
| 10 | Later , over coffee , Steven broached the subject that he had been waiting all day to discuss with Jennifer . |
| 11 | And at last Sergeant heard the voice he had been waiting all day to hear : |
| 12 | He had the enviable but potentially inconvenient gift of making each visitor feel that he was the person Montini had been waiting all his life to talk to . |
| 13 | At last she could admit honestly to herself that some part of her had been waiting all evening for this moment when her own self-imposed barriers would be swept away . |
| 14 | It was as if she had been waiting all her life to find this man , this moment . |
| 15 | I heard myself saying the line that had been waiting ready for months : ‘ I think the time has come when you must go in . ’ |
| 16 | At the end of September 143 people had been waiting more than a year . |
| 17 | I said I 've been waiting six months now , I 've given my life six months to wait for a job , I said , you ca n't get experience if you 're not given chances |
| 18 | and they say I 've been waiting seventeen years for this pollack , or having your tooth out or having your tonsils extracted |
| 19 | I 've been waiting all this time for a baby , but I must admit the carrying of it is more tiring than I 'd expected . ’ |
| 20 | Like me , you 've been waiting all these years , whether you knew it or not . ’ |
| 21 | I 've been waiting half an hour . |
| 22 | Then worries rush into her consciousness , as into his , like clamorous patients who have been waiting all night for the doctor 's surgery to open ; but she deals with them in a rational , orderly manner . |
| 23 | It 's just that you have been waiting all afternoon for it to arrive and now have little choice but to try and bludgeon your way through the waves of cover tacklers . |
| 24 | I have been waiting each day to hear if you had decided to marry that idiot in England . ’ |
| 25 | By Claire 's watch they have been waiting eleven minutes . |
| 26 | Not after she 's been waiting 200 years to get her hands on the last of the Gittels . |