Example sentences of "[verb] been waiting [prep] [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The kennel maid remarked , ‘ There 's something queer about that animal , she has been waiting for you since early this morning . |
| 2 | By a coincidence the letter had been waiting for her on her dressing-table when she had got in from the pictures the previous night , just after she had been thinking and talking of Hilda . |
| 3 | It was as if she had been waiting for him for all these years . |
| 4 | Gravier 's wife and child and parents had been waiting for him at Acapulco . |
| 5 | Although the citadel had been rebuilt by the Emperor Gia Long in 1802 , its palaces and temples had been designed and constructed faithfully in the style favoured by China 's Ming emperors and at the entrance to the Dai Noi , the Imperial City itself , Tran Van Hieu had been waiting for him in the shadow of the Ngo Mon , the " Bull Gate " roofed in gold tiles like the Gate of Heavenly Peace in Peking . |
| 6 | ‘ Hullo , Pranger , I 've been waiting for you for years . ’ |
| 7 | " I 've been waiting for you for six hours . |
| 8 | ‘ I 've been waiting for you for the past three hours , pacing the corridors , wearing out the carpet . |
| 9 | We must , surely , eventually get to recovery , but we have been waiting for it for a long time . |
| 10 | Truth to tell , we have been waiting for it since Genesis 12 . |