Example sentences of "[pron] [vb base] [be] wait [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've been waiting for the battery to run down . |
| 2 | I have been waiting for a lift for four hours . |
| 3 | ‘ I have been waiting for a long time to get my hands on this one ’ , a review of Nicolson by Kingsley Amis began . |
| 4 | He said : ‘ I have been waiting for the last three years for an opportunity like this and I see it as the right time in my career to take it . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Nevertheless , the good news will bring some welcome relief to those homeowners who have been waiting for the best part of 1991 to sell their home . |
| 7 | Erm , so what were doing is were , we hope were waiting for a new prisoner to be allocated to us , erm , and perhaps we could , perhaps we could , perhaps we can write and remind you think , think we should do that ? |
| 8 | We 've been waiting for the knight in shining armour and then there is n't one . |
| 9 | Well , we 've been waiting for the protractors , we have n't been |
| 10 | ‘ For many years we have been waiting for a mighty star to appear in the heavens and now it has . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | But most of us have been waiting for the results of the Concorde trial . ’ |