Example sentences of "[verb] been wait [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | A case involving a company called Coloroll has been waiting for resolution by the European Court . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Marjorie Thomas , 35 , who has been waiting since August 1989 for surgery on an eye condition , said the claims are no consolation . |
| 5 | She 'd been waiting for Christine , but Christine had n't come . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | ‘ They should have been waiting on Victoria station , checking each train that came in . ’ |
| 8 | If someone had valuables hidden in the hypocaust , he must have been waiting on thorns for the chance to get his hoard away , and baulked all day by staff and visitors wandering around . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | All afternoon she had been waiting for evidence of the racing rumour-machine at work . |
| 13 | Phoebe woke up quickly , as though she had been waiting for Maggie 's summons , but not quickly enough . |
| 14 | The government had already agreed to meeting Unita this week and the UN had been waiting for Unita to set the date , UN officials said . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | People had been waiting for years for freedom ‘ and they 've now had enough ’ . |
| 17 | It had been waiting for weeks . |
| 18 | She had been waiting for Silas to assert himself and knew that sooner or later an outburst of authority must come from him . |
| 19 | I found him in the Grange garden , where he had been waiting for news all night . |
| 20 | She had been waiting on Dreadnought to watch the water coming in through the main leak . |
| 21 | Everyone had been waiting on tenterhooks on the platform , as they had been technically ready for more than a day . |
| 22 | A Piper Chieftain , belonging to UNACO , had been waiting at Orly Airport to fly them on to Strasbourg . |
| 23 | A ship containing 800 tonnes of food , fuel and medicines sent by the ICRC had been waiting off Mogadishu 's docks , unable to unload , since early November . |
| 24 | ‘ We 've been waiting for ages , ’ said Angalo . |
| 25 | I 've been waiting for ages . ’ |
| 26 | I 've been waiting for fags since ten o'clock this morning . |
| 27 | I 've been waiting for years for someone to do that . ’ |
| 28 | England have been waiting for Chris Lewis to establish himself as a genuine allrounder since he made his debut in 1990 . |
| 29 | ‘ We have been waiting for grants but there has been some debate about whether croquet is a sport because of the pace it 's played at . ’ |
| 30 | Ever since the 1917 Revolution , Russian women have been waiting for things to improve — and they are still waiting . |