Example sentences of "have been waiting " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You have been waiting ! ’ |
| 2 | ‘ So you have been waiting . |
| 3 | McNeill said : ‘ I have been waiting for two days for this supposed written offer . |
| 4 | And he answered : ‘ Yes , I have been waiting a long time , waiting to hear you say that . |
| 5 | We , the readers of the narrative , have been waiting for this moment ever since the concluding words of the book of Numbers : ‘ These are the commandments and the ordinances which the Lord commanded by Moses to the people of Israel in the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho . ’ |
| 6 | Truth to tell , we have been waiting for it since Genesis 12 . |
| 7 | ‘ I have been waiting for this , you know . |
| 8 | Gentlemen ushers in knee-length black tunics fuss about , directing last-minute guests to their seats , although most have been waiting for the best part of an hour , making stilted smalltalk to conceal their pride . |
| 9 | ‘ Our fans have been waiting a long time for a game like Sunday 's . |
| 10 | ‘ We have come to liberate their country ; they have been waiting for us . ’ |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | ‘ 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 . |
| 13 | I have been waiting for a lift for four hours . |
| 14 | They have been waiting for these choice morsels — dessert . |
| 15 | That 's why Sangenic is the invention that disposable nappies have been waiting for . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Ever since the 1917 Revolution , Russian women have been waiting for things to improve — and they are still waiting . |
| 18 | ‘ Police have been waiting at the top to take the things off them . ’ |
| 19 | THE golden moment millions of TV viewers have been waiting for goes on air tonight . |
| 20 | Is this what we have been waiting for all these years , the answer that has so far eluded us ? |
| 21 | ‘ This is the boost we have been waiting for , ’ says sales director Malcolm Prior . |
| 22 | ‘ It 's as if people have been waiting for the Autumn Statement . ’ |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Well Newcastle folk have been waiting a long time , and we all badly want to give them something to celebrate . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ I have been waiting to pick him for some time but our form was not good and it was not easy on Dion living in hotels . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | ‘ I have been waiting for a long time to get my hands on this one ’ , a review of Nicolson by Kingsley Amis began . |
| 28 | Musicians have been waiting impatiently for an application to read printed musical scores and convert them into MIDI Musical Instrument Digital Interface files for output on keyboards and synthesisers . |
| 29 | I have been waiting a long time for a British magazine to offer intelligent coverage of mainstream sport in a way that Sports Illustrated , among others in America , seems to do effortlessly . |
| 30 | Community nurses have been waiting for news about how they are to be organised for some time , and uncertainty about the future is always bad for morale . |