Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] been waiting [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Pretty much what happened was that I 'd been waiting all this time to be successful , to achieve whatever I was going to achieve , now I had and I was sitting in this flippin' hotel thinking : This is not where it 's at . |
| 2 | I 've been waiting all this time for a baby , but I must admit the carrying of it is more tiring than I 'd expected . ’ |
| 3 | I 've been waiting half an hour . |
| 4 | I have been waiting each day to hear if you had decided to marry that idiot in England . ’ |
| 5 | At last she could admit honestly to herself that some part of her had been waiting all evening for this moment when her own self-imposed barriers would be swept away . |
| 6 | No , he wrote , because Diana herself does not acknowledge either that she has been waiting all her life for him to appear . |
| 7 | She 'd been waiting all her life for this man , this moment . |
| 8 | Like me , you 've been waiting all these years , whether you knew it or not . ’ |
| 9 | It was as if she had been waiting all her life to find this man , this moment . |
| 10 | Then worries rush into her consciousness , as into his , like clamorous patients who have been waiting all night for the doctor 's surgery to open ; but she deals with them in a rational , orderly manner . |
| 11 | It 's just that you have been waiting all afternoon for it to arrive and now have little choice but to try and bludgeon your way through the waves of cover tacklers . |
| 12 | We had been waiting all Genesis for words like those . |
| 13 | Later , over coffee , Steven broached the subject that he had been waiting all day to discuss with Jennifer . |
| 14 | And at last Sergeant heard the voice he had been waiting all day to hear : |