Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [be] wait for [det] " in BNC.

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No	Sentence
1	I 'd been waiting for some opportunity to show off , to draw attention to myself .
2	So it 's really settling in and I 've been waiting for that to happen . ’
3	I 've been waiting for that featherbrained bird to buzz off , ’ said the frog .
4	that 's what I 've been waiting for that ten , ten do it again
5	‘ I 've been waiting for this , ’ says Iain .
6	I 've been waiting for this moment all week .
7	I 've been waiting for this for so long that I do n't think I can wait any longer — ’
8	I 've been waiting for this chance since the days of the Witch of Endor .
9	I 've been waiting for this day all week .
10	I have been waiting for some time for hon. Members to refer to my apparel and I am duly flattered .
11	‘ I have been waiting for this , you know .
12	She 'd been waiting for this moment for so long , and all she could do , now that it had finally arrived , was think the worst of him , instead of simply being happy to see him again .
13	It was as if she had been waiting for this moment for four years or more .
14	Tuesday — could it really be only Tuesday when now every cell of her body was alight with a feedback intelligence that told her she had been waiting for this man all her life …
15	Alec d'Urberville , who had been waiting for this moment , appeared at her side .
16	I just said , goodness , I said we 've been waiting for this parcel since before Christmas and he says oh have you duck .
17	Is this what we have been waiting for all these years , the answer that has so far eluded us ?
18	They have been waiting for these choice morsels — dessert .
19	This was ‘ Ace 's wave ’ , the one he 'd been waiting for all his life .
20	As everyone turned to look at him , Jinny realized that he had been waiting for this moment all the time he was explaining his plan .
21	He looked as if he had been waiting for some time .

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