Example sentences of "[pron] had been waiting for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Phoebe woke up quickly , as though she had been waiting for Maggie 's summons , but not quickly enough . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | And that , then , was what she had been waiting for . |
| 4 | All afternoon she had been waiting for evidence of the racing rumour-machine at work . |
| 5 | It was as if she had been waiting for him for all these years . |
| 6 | She had been waiting for him to bring up the subject and was not surprised when he did so that very evening , although not , as she had anticipated , because of the eminently satisfactory report from her gynaecologist but for another reason altogether . |
| 7 | It was as if she had been waiting for this moment for four years or more . |
| 8 | This was what she had been waiting for since she had first met him though she had never admitted it to herself until now . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | All the time she had been waiting for him to call , it had been there … |
| 11 | 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 … |
| 12 | Now was the moment she had been waiting for . |
| 13 | She had been waiting for Silas to assert himself and knew that sooner or later an outburst of authority must come from him . |
| 14 | But when she had joined Sausage , who had been waiting for her outside , she bent and stroked his curly head , and two large tears rolled down her cheeks and splashed on to his fur . |
| 15 | Alec d'Urberville , who had been waiting for this moment , appeared at her side . |
| 16 | I went there and found that people who had been waiting for four hours or more had still not received satisfaction . |
| 17 | A shopkeeper had a dispute with a customer , a woman who had been waiting for a bus had popped in to mention parking on the footpath at weekends , the school had organised some Maypole dancing and wondered if part of the car park could be cordoned off , somebody else wanted vehicle watch forms . |
| 18 | She welcomed the work done and the fact that so many people who had been waiting for so long had been treated , but was concerned that health workers who had been working flat out to reduce the lists would not be able to maintain their work rate . |
| 19 | The man gave a grunt , which was the permission we had been waiting for , and I ran all the way back to my flat to change and conduct the concert . |
| 20 | We had been waiting for three days behind Serbian lines . |
| 21 | They had been waiting for them , forewarned , rifles at the ready . |
| 22 | For her parents Fran and Les , it was the day they had been waiting for . |
| 23 | The parents were outraged ; the managers had got the opportunity they had been waiting for . |
| 24 | A crowd of eager customers would be awaiting his arrival outside the shops and attack him for the particular colour , size or style of dress they had been waiting for . |
| 25 | There was restrained optimism among Wickham 's team that this could be the lead they had been waiting for . |
| 26 | They had been waiting for high water so that they could sail alongside in a civilised manner . |
| 27 | Maybe this was the break they had been waiting for . |
| 28 | It had been waiting for weeks . |
| 29 | Theodora replaced the mouthpiece and the telephone shrilled again as though it had been waiting for her to release its ring . |
| 30 | As everyone turned to look at him , Jinny realized that he had been waiting for this moment all the time he was explaining his plan . |