Example sentences of "[pron] have [be] wait [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've been waiting for the battery to run down . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Jenny Pitman is another who has been waiting for the rain before releasing a very strong team . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | While she went to brew coffee Fletcher introduced Patrick and Chris to the man who had been waiting in the sitting room . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | But actually it does n't tell you anything about the quality of the care which they 're purchasing and the evidence that we are getting increasingly from the community health council is the experience of people of the health service is that actually the quality of the care is getting worse and this is not due to the staff in the health ee the more detailed plans coming to the next meeting of the e the more detailed plans coming to the next meeting of the for an operation er , four years , it should to be said er , she 's been waiting despite the government 's claim that all operations are done within two years er for very severe varicose veins and surprisingly enough she got them because of course most varicose have been removed her , the north-east Thames region erm , and er she turned up on the Wednesday and the operation had been postponed twice previously er , she was er gone through all the er , various tests which took her four hours cos she had to find all the places herself , there was nobody to show her to X-ray and various other places erm she was prepared for the op and then was sent home because there was n't a bed available ! |
| 9 | We 've been waiting for the knight in shining armour and then there is n't one . |
| 10 | Well , we 've been waiting for the protractors , we have n't been |
| 11 | He has been waiting for the right offer for some time after turning down an approach from Italian club Pisa several seasons ago . |
| 12 | He had been waiting for the spirit warrior his father had told him of in infancy , the One-Eyed White Girl . |
| 13 | The man got into the lift with her after he had been waiting in the foyer . |
| 14 | He 's been waiting for the past half-hour . ’ |
| 15 | Afterwards , he felt it had been as if each of them had been waiting for the other to touch on a delicate subject . |
| 16 | But most of us have been waiting for the results of the Concorde trial . ’ |