Example sentences of "[pron] [pers pn] [was/were] wait for " in BNC.
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| 1 | I told him I was waiting for my boyfriend , and he got back in his car but still sat there , looking at me . |
| 2 | Hagans told him he was waiting for his girlfriend . |
| 3 | Well that 's what I was waiting for were n't it ? |
| 4 | She did n't know what she was waiting for , a miracle perhaps , because one thing she did know , and that was that Patsy was right . |
| 5 | When she was younger she thought she knew what she was waiting for . |
| 6 | Melanie knew what she was waiting for although she had not told her . |
| 7 | This was what they were waiting for . |
| 8 | They had waited for so long that some of them had forgotten what they were waiting for . |
| 9 | He simply stood still saying nothing until the cries died away , and then told them what they were waiting for , and that he expected little more fighting . |
| 10 | The light shone on to his upturned face and gleamed on the burnished flanks of the mare who blew through her nose impatiently as though to ask what they were waiting for . |
| 11 | She felt rage flood through her and she fought down the impulse to scream — that was just what he was waiting for . |
| 12 | That 's what he was waiting for . |