Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] have [be] waiting " in BNC.
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| 31 | So now he is my enemy , I have touched his pride , and he has been waiting only the moment to humiliate me … ’ |
| 32 | It was as if he had been waiting there for me all my life . |
| 33 | He looked as if he had been waiting for some time . |
| 34 | Mum Cheryl needs a heart-lung transplant but she has been waiting in vain for a donor since January . |
| 35 | We must , surely , eventually get to recovery , but we have been waiting for it for a long time . |
| 36 | The fog lifted and the house became filled with a babble of excitable people , few of whom spoke English and who all arrived at once because they 'd been waiting for a clear passage . |
| 37 | 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 . |
| 38 | And he had probably expected to see her at the shop this morning , while she had been waiting impatiently at his office . |
| 39 | Not after she 's been waiting 200 years to get her hands on the last of the Gittels . |
| 40 | The man got into the lift with her after he had been waiting in the foyer . |
| 41 | Phoebe woke up quickly , as though she had been waiting for Maggie 's summons , but not quickly enough . |
| 42 | ‘ Well ? ’ she says as though she 's been waiting a long time . |
| 43 | And then , as though it had been waiting there to be born , a plan had begun to come to life in her mind . |
| 44 | Theodora replaced the mouthpiece and the telephone shrilled again as though it had been waiting for her to release its ring . |
| 45 | As they passed the alimentari ( shut , as it might be forever ) and then plunged off the road into the shadows of the bramble-lined single track , Haverford quoted , as he had been waiting to do ever since they left Heathrow : ‘ ‘ In the middle of the journey of our life , I found myself lost in a dark wood , ’ ’ he began to translate for the benefit of the children , but they were all , including the baby , asleep now and Molly thought that for her father to pretend to be in the middle of his life was a bit of a cheek anyway . |