Example sentences of "[pron] have [be] waiting [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | McNeill said : ‘ I have been waiting for two days for this supposed written offer . |
| 2 | ‘ I have been waiting for this , you know . |
| 3 | ‘ You must be the one , ’ said the young woman , ‘ You must be the one I have been waiting for , who must release me from enchantment . |
| 4 | I have been waiting for a lift for four hours . |
| 5 | ‘ I have been waiting for a long time to get my hands on this one ’ , a review of Nicolson by Kingsley Amis began . |
| 6 | I have been waiting for some time for hon. Members to refer to my apparel and I am duly flattered . |
| 7 | He said : ‘ I have been waiting for the last three years for an opportunity like this and I see it as the right time in my career to take it . |
| 8 | ‘ This is what I have been waiting for to really make the hotel complete . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ Father , I have been waiting for you all afternoon . ’ |
| 10 | Those who have been waiting for the newly published syllabus for Part 2 , which is also to be run at Greenhill starting in the Autumn on Thursdays from 9.30am to 12.30pm , should contact the tutor , Sybil Kenton . |
| 11 | The House may be interested to know that , because we were seeking to look at the effect of NHS management reforms over the first six months , we did not draw attention to the fact that the number of people who have been waiting for more than one year on in-patient lists is 37 per cent . |
| 12 | Nevertheless , the good news will bring some welcome relief to those homeowners who have been waiting for the best part of 1991 to sell their home . |
| 13 | Truth to tell , we have been waiting for it since Genesis 12 . |
| 14 | Is this what we have been waiting for all these years , the answer that has so far eluded us ? |
| 15 | ‘ This is the boost we have been waiting for , ’ says sales director Malcolm Prior . |
| 16 | NOW , Creggan , is the time we have been waiting for . |
| 17 | We have been waiting for nearly fifty years . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ For many years we have been waiting for a mighty star to appear in the heavens and now it has . |
| 19 | We must , surely , eventually get to recovery , but we have been waiting for it for a long time . |
| 20 | You are the one we have been waiting for . ’ |
| 21 | I will be very brief but just to welcome the fact that in we have been waiting for nearly fifty years |
| 22 | One is , none of the departments are resourced to give this a lot of attention , and secondly we have been waiting for further guidance from the Government on the outcome , particularly from local government , in respect of agenda twenty-one . |
| 23 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 24 | He said : ‘ We have been waiting since April for the sentence but another man could do this . |
| 25 | They say they have been waiting to be moved from the ‘ temporary accommodation ’ ever since . |
| 26 | They say they have been waiting to be moved from the ‘ temporary accommodation ’ ever since . |
| 27 | ‘ We have come to liberate their country ; they have been waiting for us . ’ |
| 28 | They have been waiting for these choice morsels — dessert . |
| 29 | The length of time they have been waiting for a house or factors such as overcrowding and damp are far more important than marital status , Mrs Smith said . |
| 30 | FOR teenagers , Wayne 's World is just the video they have been waiting for . |