Example sentences of "[pers pn] have be wait for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've been waiting for the battery to run down . |
| 2 | I have been waiting for a lift for four hours . |
| 3 | ‘ I have been waiting for a long time to get my hands on this one ’ , a review of Nicolson by Kingsley Amis began . |
| 4 | He said : ‘ I have been waiting for the last three years for an opportunity like this and I see it as the right time in my career to take it . |
| 5 | We 've been waiting for the knight in shining armour and then there is n't one . |
| 6 | Well , we 've been waiting for the protractors , we have n't been |
| 7 | ‘ For many years we have been waiting for a mighty star to appear in the heavens and now it has . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | They 'd been waiting for a council house for 5 years . |
| 10 | The length of time they have been waiting for a house or factors such as overcrowding and damp are far more important than marital status , Mrs Smith said . |
| 11 | He has been waiting for the right offer for some time after turning down an approach from Italian club Pisa several seasons ago . |
| 12 | Prince Charles said he 'd been waiting for a year for the chance to speak publiclty about the fate of the Marsh Arabs . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | He had been waiting for the spirit warrior his father had told him of in infancy , the One-Eyed White Girl . |
| 15 | He 's been waiting for the past half-hour . ’ |
| 16 | Afterwards , he felt it had been as if each of them had been waiting for the other to touch on a delicate subject . |
| 17 | But most of us have been waiting for the results of the Concorde trial . ’ |