Example sentences of "[vb past] [been] waiting [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ 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 . |
| 2 | She 'd been waiting all her life for this man , this moment . |
| 3 | Halfway outbound in the hold the scheduled traffic for which we 'd been waiting landed , and we swooped down , just catching the ILS . |
| 4 | We had been waiting all Genesis for words like those . |
| 5 | Later , over coffee , Steven broached the subject that he had been waiting all day to discuss with Jennifer . |
| 6 | And at last Sergeant heard the voice he had been waiting all day to hear : |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | It was as if she had been waiting all her life to find this man , this moment . |
| 10 | I heard myself saying the line that had been waiting ready for months : ‘ I think the time has come when you must go in . ’ |
| 11 | At the end of September 143 people had been waiting more than a year . |