Example sentences of "had [been] wait [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | He could drink good wine ; eat French food superlatively cooked , and apparently available in abundance ; be waited upon as he had been waited upon in the old days before the war , by a succession of polite , quiet , efficient , well-trained servants , all of whom were Arab , all of whom spoke perfect French . |
2 | 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 . |
3 | People had been waiting for years for freedom ‘ and they 've now had enough ’ . |
4 | An hour later the village bobby was let into the house by Mr Lawson , and shortly afterwards they emerged together for the Chancellor to give the message the world 's money markets had been waiting for . |
5 | Phoebe woke up quickly , as though she had been waiting for Maggie 's summons , but not quickly enough . |
6 | The banks have been hostile to the plans from the beginning but had been waiting for the right moment to withdraw on commercial rather than political grounds . |
7 | As everyone turned to look at him , Jinny realized that he had been waiting for this moment all the time he was explaining his plan . |
8 | Marie had been waiting for him out in the car-park . |
9 | In this Karajan proved the catalyst everyone had been waiting for . |
10 | The man gave a grunt , which was the permission we had been waiting for , and I ran all the way back to my flat to change and conduct the concert . |
11 | Mrs Shirley Hayden , headteacher of Our Lady 's school in nearby Crowthorne , Berks , said : ‘ Oliver had been waiting for his mother to pick him up as usual at 3.15pm . |
12 | In February 1756 reference is made to four illustrations ‘ sent some time since by our friend , Mr. Collinson ’ and Miller said he would have sent others except for the fact that he had been waiting for better colourists . |
13 | This was the tonic which the nuclear industry had been waiting for — a government which was both strongly sympathetic to its point of view , and prepared to make firm decisions . |
14 | They had been waiting for them , forewarned , rifles at the ready . |
15 | This was the moment he had been waiting for since his ordination . |
16 | Here was an opportunity many had been waiting for . |
17 | The announcement everyone had been waiting for came on time as British Telecom proposed to put up telephone bills by five per cent . |
18 | By then , some of the crowd had been waiting for 5 or 6 hours and many were becoming restive . |
19 | Michell 's work provided the opportunity researchers had been waiting for and Pat Gadsby and Chris Hutton-Squire , of the alternative technology magazine , Undercurrents , took up the challenge . |
20 | 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 . |
21 | 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 . |
22 | Rab had been waiting for him . |
23 | And that , then , was what she had been waiting for . |
24 | All afternoon she had been waiting for evidence of the racing rumour-machine at work . |
25 | Her feeling was that Meryl had been waiting for someone … |
26 | It was as if she had been waiting for him for all these years . |
27 | Carey continued : ‘ I doubt if He would have been impressed by the argument that the goats had been waiting for these things to trickle down as a by-product of economic growth . ’ |
28 | Was this what Edward had been waiting for ? |
29 | 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 . |
30 | It was as if she had been waiting for this moment for four years or more . |