Example sentences of "been wait [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had been waiting on Dreadnought to watch the water coming in through the main leak . |
| 2 | All afternoon she had been waiting for evidence of the racing rumour-machine at work . |
| 3 | The station was overflowing with badly wounded who had already been waiting for treatment for several days . |
| 4 | A case involving a company called Coloroll has been waiting for resolution by the European Court . |
| 5 | The Chancellor has been waiting for Father Christmas since the spring , and I do not think that Father Christmas will arrive for him before 25 December . |
| 6 | Community nurses have been waiting for news about how they are to be organised for some time , and uncertainty about the future is always bad for morale . |
| 7 | I found him in the Grange garden , where he had been waiting for news all night . |
| 8 | Thus ( 15a ) presupposes that the person referred to by I has been waiting for news about someone whom he thought to be in danger , whereas ( 15b ) does not , and might be said rather by someone who is comparing himself with other people who do not know this fact . |
| 9 | If I 'd been the archer , I thought , I would have been waiting in position , crouched and camouflaged , endlessly patient , arrow notched on bow . |
| 10 | I have never sat down and been waited on hand and foot , ever . ’ |
| 11 | Having been waited on hand and foot for most of his life and had people jump whenever he called , he has never really had the opportunity to be anything else . |