Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] been waiting for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | They 'd been waiting for a council house for 5 years . |
| 3 | Prince Charles said he 'd been waiting for a year for the chance to speak publiclty about the fate of the Marsh Arabs . |
| 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 | He had been waiting for the spirit warrior his father had told him of in infancy , the One-Eyed White Girl . |
| 6 | Afterwards , he felt it had been as if each of them had been waiting for the other to touch on a delicate subject . |