Example sentences of "[pron] have been waiting for [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Well , I 'd been waiting for her , too ! |
| 2 | I 've been waiting for him all my life . |
| 3 | No , I 've been waiting for them to get them cards in I ordered a couple of those cards with the lights at the top for Kieran to take home |
| 4 | ‘ Hullo , Pranger , I 've been waiting for you for years . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ I 've been waiting for you , ’ said the Countess . |
| 6 | I 've been waiting for you . |
| 7 | ‘ I 've been waiting for you . |
| 8 | ‘ I 've been waiting for you all this time , Jane , ’ he said . |
| 9 | ‘ I 've been waiting for you to look after the children while I fetch him . ’ |
| 10 | " I 've been waiting for you for six hours . |
| 11 | I 've been waiting for you . |
| 12 | ‘ I 've been waiting for you for the past three hours , pacing the corridors , wearing out the carpet . |
| 13 | I sang down the Bottom Club , so when I went down the next week the manager said I 've just been waiting for you , I 've been waiting for you to come in he said so he said , look the group ca n't come he said , will you sing ? |
| 14 | I 've been waiting for it coming through you know . |
| 15 | ‘ Father , I have been waiting for you all afternoon . ’ |
| 16 | The kennel maid remarked , ‘ There 's something queer about that animal , she has been waiting for you since early this morning . |
| 17 | She 'd been waiting for you . ’ |
| 18 | It was as if she had been waiting for him for all these years . |
| 19 | She had been waiting for him to bring up the subject and was not surprised when he did so that very evening , although not , as she had anticipated , because of the eminently satisfactory report from her gynaecologist but for another reason altogether . |
| 20 | All the time she had been waiting for him to call , it had been there … |
| 21 | But when she had joined Sausage , who had been waiting for her outside , she bent and stroked his curly head , and two large tears rolled down her cheeks and splashed on to his fur . |
| 22 | We 've been waiting for you . |
| 23 | come on then we 've been waiting for you to come , come on |
| 24 | Truth to tell , we have been waiting for it since Genesis 12 . |
| 25 | We must , surely , eventually get to recovery , but we have been waiting for it for a long time . |
| 26 | They 'd been waiting for me , it seemed , in a mutual absence of civility . |
| 27 | They 've been waiting for it . |
| 28 | They had been waiting for them , forewarned , rifles at the ready . |
| 29 | ‘ We have come to liberate their country ; they have been waiting for us . ’ |
| 30 | I feel that he has been waiting for me to get home so he can demonstrate this talent . |