Example sentences of "[noun] [pers pn] have [be] waiting [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ This is the boost we have been waiting for , ’ says sales director Malcolm Prior . |
| 2 | Maybe this was the break they had been waiting for . |
| 3 | Bowie has already made a name for himself as an actor in a string of top movies , including The Hunger and The Man Who Fell To Earth , but this is the TV break he has been waiting for . |
| 4 | His twice broken kneecap still bears the scars — for Lawrence today was the test he 's been waiting for . |
| 5 | All afternoon she had been waiting for evidence of the racing rumour-machine at work . |
| 6 | " This could be the opportunity you 've been waiting for , " she said slowly , her eyes black shadows in her face . |
| 7 | The moment I 'd been waiting for so long had arrived . |
| 8 | The moment she 'd been waiting for . |
| 9 | Now was the moment she had been waiting for . |
| 10 | One day in the shop she 'd been waiting for Malcolm 's girlfriend and partner , Vivienne Westwood — they 'd been planning to go somewhere but Vivienne had n't turned up , she 'd phoned to tell this American girl that . |
| 11 | ‘ It 's the moment we 've been waiting for ! ’ |
| 12 | it 's the moment we 've been waiting for . |
| 13 | ‘ For many years we have been waiting for a mighty star to appear in the heavens and now it has . |
| 14 | There was restrained optimism among Wickham 's team that this could be the lead they had been waiting for . |
| 15 | This was the moment he had been waiting for since his ordination . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | FOR teenagers , Wayne 's World is just the video they have been waiting for . |
| 18 | For her parents Fran and Les , it was the day they had been waiting for . |
| 19 | It 's the chance they 've been waiting for . |
| 20 | Today Cynthia Coles got the news she 's been waiting for . |
| 21 | Paul Groombridge says it 's the good news they 've been waiting for . |
| 22 | The parents were outraged ; the managers had got the opportunity they had been waiting for . |
| 23 | I also had a look at the fact that Toby might well be — or have been — the man I 'd been waiting for , though God knows I 'd never have recognized him in a million years if we had n't happened , entirely by accident , to stumble into each other 's arms . |
| 24 | ‘ It may be the man you 've been waiting for , Master Benjamin , ’ she called across . |
| 25 | ‘ That 's the call you 've been waiting for , Travis , ’ he said awkwardly , aware of the atmosphere . |
| 26 | I would love to see Réaux on stage in one of the great Weill parts — ‘ My ship ’ is good enough to suggest that here , at last , perhaps , is the Liza Elliott we 've been waiting for . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | All that bottled-up vitriol for the man he 'd been waiting for had actually been for her . |
| 29 | Then finally , Paul Reichmann saw the opportunity he had been waiting for in London , a city he fondly recalled from the days when he studied there as a young man . |
| 30 | All the time she had been waiting for him to call , it had been there … |