Example sentences of "[pron] [pers pn] had been waiting " in BNC.
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| 1 | The mood of the Parisians , when they heard the news for which they had been waiting so long , was recorded by a young Welshman living in a rented room on the Ile de la Cité . |
| 2 | By the next dawn Isambard had the news for which he had been waiting ; and the following night he put two parties across the Severn , one upstream from them and one down , and converged upon their hiding-place from either end of the ridge . |
| 3 | 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 … |
| 4 | Ten minutes later he was joined by the couple for whom he had been waiting . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | And that , then , was what she had been waiting for . |
| 7 | This was what she had been waiting for since she had first met him though she had never admitted it to herself until now . |
| 8 | It was what he had been waiting for . |