Example sentences of "she [vb past] been waiting " in BNC.
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| 1 | One day in the shop she 'd been waiting for Malcolm 's girlfriend and partner , Vivienne Westwood — they 'd been planning to go somewhere but Vivienne had n't turned up , she 'd phoned to tell this American girl that . |
| 2 | ‘ Yup , ’ she 'd said , shifting down to fourth as a car she 'd been waiting to pass pulled back into the slow lane . |
| 3 | She 'd been waiting for this moment for so long , and all she could do , now that it had finally arrived , was think the worst of him , instead of simply being happy to see him again . |
| 4 | She 'd been waiting for Christine , but Christine had n't come . |
| 5 | as if she 'd been waiting outside for a convenient pause in their conversation , the vaporeuse knocked on the door and opened it . |
| 6 | She 'd been waiting for you . ’ |
| 7 | The moment she 'd been waiting for . |
| 8 | She 'd been waiting outside his office for the best part of three hours when his secretary came to tell her that he 'd just phoned in . |
| 9 | She 'd been waiting all her life for this man , this moment . |
| 10 | The strong fingers peeling the nightshirt upwards , the exploring hunger of the hard mouth on her stomach , her breasts , her lips , it felt as if she 'd been waiting for ever for these feelings … |
| 11 | Well she 'd been waiting because he 's on full time again now |
| 12 | Phoebe woke up quickly , as though she had been waiting for Maggie 's summons , but not quickly enough . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | And that , then , was what she had been waiting for . |
| 16 | All afternoon she had been waiting for evidence of the racing rumour-machine at work . |
| 17 | It was as if she had been waiting for him for all these years . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | It was as if she had been waiting for this moment for four years or more . |
| 20 | This was what she had been waiting for since she had first met him though she had never admitted it to herself until now . |
| 21 | Of course she had been waiting . |
| 22 | She had been waiting on Dreadnought to watch the water coming in through the main leak . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | And he had probably expected to see her at the shop this morning , while she had been waiting impatiently at his office . |
| 25 | All the time she had been waiting for him to call , it had been there … |
| 26 | 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 … |
| 27 | Now was the moment she had been waiting for . |
| 28 | She had been waiting for Silas to assert himself and knew that sooner or later an outburst of authority must come from him . |
| 29 | It was as if she had been waiting all her life to find this man , this moment . |