Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] [verb] been wait for " in BNC.
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1 | I found him in the Grange garden , where he had been waiting for news all night . |
2 | As everyone turned to look at him , Jinny realized that he had been waiting for this moment all the time he was explaining his plan . |
3 | In February 1756 reference is made to four illustrations ‘ sent some time since by our friend , Mr. Collinson ’ and Miller said he would have sent others except for the fact that he had been waiting for better colourists . |
4 | One particularly nasty German television journalist informed me that he had been waiting for a month and if anyone was getting near Ortega , it was him . |
5 | I feel that he has been waiting for me to get home so he can demonstrate this talent . |
6 | I mean the doctor was no help and I 'd been waiting for over a coupla months to get into the Clinic for a detox . |
7 | So it 's really settling in and I 've been waiting for that to happen . ’ |
8 | The strong fingers peeling the nightshirt upwards , the exploring hunger of the hard mouth on her stomach , her breasts , her lips , it felt as if she 'd been waiting for ever for these feelings … |
9 | It was as if she had been waiting for him for all these years . |
10 | It was as if she had been waiting for this moment for four years or more . |
11 | He looked as if he had been waiting for some time . |
12 | We must , surely , eventually get to recovery , but we have been waiting for it for a long time . |
13 | The fog lifted and the house became filled with a babble of excitable people , few of whom spoke English and who all arrived at once because they 'd been waiting for a clear passage . |
14 | Jessamy had been thinking about it while she had been waiting for Julius to return with the blankets , and she thought she knew the answer . |
15 | Phoebe woke up quickly , as though she had been waiting for Maggie 's summons , but not quickly enough . |
16 | Theodora replaced the mouthpiece and the telephone shrilled again as though it had been waiting for her to release its ring . |