Example sentences of "[pers pn] have waited [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd waited a bloody long time to be with you again , and there I was , behaving like a blasted prima donna and wasting my chances . |
| 2 | Apparently , if I had waited a bit longer prices would have been much higher . |
| 3 | I 've waited a long while for this . ’ |
| 4 | An overwhelmed Fogarty said : ‘ I 've waited a long time for this . |
| 5 | So erm I 'm you kn I do n't propose to do that again because I would n't er I would n't arrange a speaker if we had a full table show but it 's nice to know that it did work out because we were , I was forced into a corner a little bit erm and I think it was worth it because we as I say I 've waited a long time for Danny and he was well worth listening to , I can listen to Danny for hours because he he just speaks and , and tells you about his fish , I 'm , I 'm very very fond of listening to Danny cos I think he gives a good talk . |
| 6 | I 've waited a long time to be able to do this . ’ |
| 7 | I 've waited a long time for this . ’ |
| 8 | I have waited a long time before writing to you , hoping all the time that I might hear good news of Leslie from Wendy . |
| 9 | He said : ‘ I have waited a long time for this chance and it 's up to me to make the most of it . |
| 10 | I have waited a long time to catch The Economist out on an egregious factual error . |
| 11 | By the time the first bell rings , I have waited an hour . |
| 12 | ‘ She has waited a long time for rest . |
| 13 | She 'd waited the few moments it took for his lean , athletic figure to be swallowed up in the crowd , feasting her eyes on his receding back , fighting back the threatening tears . |
| 14 | She had waited a long time for this moment . |
| 15 | After all , she had waited a long time to belong , but she had never realised she could belong so completely . |
| 16 | ‘ You have waited a long time to tell me . |
| 17 | ‘ We have waited a long time to have car tax taken off , but VAT is still 17.5 per cent , ’ he says . |
| 18 | Could n't they have waited a bit longer after the expense of Christmas ? |
| 19 | ‘ They 've waited a long time . |
| 20 | She had guessed by that time that , since he had n't yet stated why he 'd waited an hour to see her , he was saving what he 'd come to tell her until they were inside her flat . |
| 21 | Now he wished he had waited a year and a half and done the same thing here . |