Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [be] wait [prep] the " in BNC.
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1 | Essentially those who felt themselves to be excluded from power decided to support a perfectly plausible claimant to the throne who had been waiting on the sidelines for such a following to materialize . |
2 | While she went to brew coffee Fletcher introduced Patrick and Chris to the man who had been waiting in the sitting room . |
3 | He had been waiting for the spirit warrior his father had told him of in infancy , the One-Eyed White Girl . |
4 | The man got into the lift with her after he had been waiting in the foyer . |
5 | Afterwards , he felt it had been as if each of them had been waiting for the other to touch on a delicate subject . |