Example sentences of "[verb] be wait for the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jenny Pitman is another who has been waiting for the rain before releasing a very strong team . |
| 2 | So all you 've got to do is wait for the Agreement to get signed . |
| 3 | The gunman is believed to have been waiting for the women and chidren to come out of the shop . |
| 4 | Afterwards , he felt it had been as if each of them had been waiting for the other to touch on a delicate subject . |
| 5 | He had been waiting for the spirit warrior his father had told him of in infancy , the One-Eyed White Girl . |
| 6 | Miss Gregg told detectives her mother had been waiting for the handyman to call at the time of her death . |
| 7 | It was as if a sick national organism had been waiting for the right , suitably appalling , symptom to erupt into general protest at its fate . |
| 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 | I 've been waiting for the battery to run down . |
| 11 | But most of us have been waiting for the results of the Concorde trial . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ It 's as if people have been waiting for the Autumn Statement . ’ |