Example sentences of "[pron] had [been] waiting " in BNC.
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| 1 | Suddenly I stepped out into her path from the gateway where I had been waiting . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | She must , thought Morse , have put her hand over the mouthpiece , or perhaps Downes himself had been waiting silently ( for some reason ? ) beside the phone , for there was no audible summons before a man 's voice sounded in his ear . |
| 4 | Phoebe woke up quickly , as though she had been waiting for Maggie 's summons , but not quickly enough . |
| 5 | Crooking an index finger , she summoned a waiter and proceeded to inform him that she had been waiting fully half an hour for her pancakes and that it would not do . |
| 6 | That was what she had been waiting for , that unguarded , unforced , totally natural reaction of a lowly apprentice who sees her work unfold like a fairytale . |
| 7 | And that , then , was what she had been waiting for . |
| 8 | All afternoon she had been waiting for evidence of the racing rumour-machine at work . |
| 9 | It was as if she had been waiting for him for all these years . |
| 10 | She had been waiting for him to bring up the subject and was not surprised when he did so that very evening , although not , as she had anticipated , because of the eminently satisfactory report from her gynaecologist but for another reason altogether . |
| 11 | It was as if she had been waiting for this moment for four years or more . |
| 12 | This was what she had been waiting for since she had first met him though she had never admitted it to herself until now . |
| 13 | Of course she had been waiting . |
| 14 | She had been waiting on Dreadnought to watch the water coming in through the main leak . |
| 15 | Jessamy had been thinking about it while she had been waiting for Julius to return with the blankets , and she thought she knew the answer . |
| 16 | And he had probably expected to see her at the shop this morning , while she had been waiting impatiently at his office . |
| 17 | All the time she had been waiting for him to call , it had been there … |
| 18 | Tuesday — could it really be only Tuesday when now every cell of her body was alight with a feedback intelligence that told her she had been waiting for this man all her life … |
| 19 | Now was the moment she had been waiting for . |
| 20 | She had been waiting for Silas to assert himself and knew that sooner or later an outburst of authority must come from him . |
| 21 | It was as if she had been waiting all her life to find this man , this moment . |
| 22 | MPs who had been waiting since the start of the debate did n't take kindly to ‘ camera fodder ’ coming in . |
| 23 | But when she had joined Sausage , who had been waiting for her outside , she bent and stroked his curly head , and two large tears rolled down her cheeks and splashed on to his fur . |
| 24 | A late arrival came out between the automatic doors , stared at the queue , walked back inside to join the uniformed chauffeur who had been waiting and holding a card . |
| 25 | We were still going slowly and painfully round the room when Estella brought in the relations who had been waiting downstairs . |
| 26 | And the buzzard , who had been waiting hidden in the branches of- an oak tree , swooped down , picked her up as carefully as if she were made of rose petals , and carried her back to the forest . |
| 27 | On July 25th , 1908 , the rails forced their way into Denwood , and those who had been waiting so long and patiently considered that the prizes were theirs at last . |
| 28 | Alec d'Urberville , who had been waiting for this moment , appeared at her side . |
| 29 | On the day on which the Secretary of State gave a pledge to his party conference that everyone would have equal access to free health care , I was contacted by a constituent , Mr. Ronnie Watson , who had been waiting since September 1990 for an appointment with a consultant to discuss a possible hip operation and had just been told that he would have to wait until some unspecified date in 1992 . |
| 30 | I went there and found that people who had been waiting for four hours or more had still not received satisfaction . |