Example sentences of "she had [be] waiting " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Phoebe woke up quickly , as though she had been waiting for Maggie 's summons , but not quickly enough . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | And that , then , was what she had been waiting for . |
| 5 | All afternoon she had been waiting for evidence of the racing rumour-machine at work . |
| 6 | It was as if she had been waiting for him for all these years . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | It was as if she had been waiting for this moment for four years or more . |
| 9 | This was what she had been waiting for since she had first met him though she had never admitted it to herself until now . |
| 10 | Of course she had been waiting . |
| 11 | She had been waiting on Dreadnought to watch the water coming in through the main leak . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | And he had probably expected to see her at the shop this morning , while she had been waiting impatiently at his office . |
| 14 | All the time she had been waiting for him to call , it had been there … |
| 15 | 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 … |
| 16 | Now was the moment she had been waiting for . |
| 17 | She had been waiting for Silas to assert himself and knew that sooner or later an outburst of authority must come from him . |
| 18 | It was as if she had been waiting all her life to find this man , this moment . |