Example sentences of "have been waiting [det] " in BNC.

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1 No , he wrote , because Diana herself does not acknowledge either that she has been waiting all her life for him to appear .
2 ‘ 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 .
3 She 'd been waiting all her life for this man , this moment .
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 At the end of September 143 people had been waiting more than a year .
11 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 . ’
12 Like me , you 've been waiting all these years , whether you knew it or not . ’
13 I 've been waiting half an hour .
14 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 .
15 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 .
16 I have been waiting each day to hear if you had decided to marry that idiot in England . ’
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