Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [be] waiting [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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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 | So I mean she 's been waiting on that erm place down Junction Road but they , you know , we 've had nothing from . |
17 | I just said , goodness , I said we 've been waiting for this parcel since before Christmas and he says oh have you duck . |
18 | Is this what we have been waiting for all these years , the answer that has so far eluded us ? |
19 | They have been waiting for these choice morsels — dessert . |
20 | This was ‘ Ace 's wave ’ , the one he 'd been waiting for all his life . |
21 | 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 . |
22 | He looked as if he had been waiting for some time . |