Example sentences of "[vb past] be waiting for a [noun] " in BNC.

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1 They 'd been waiting for a council house for 5 years .
2 Prince Charles said he 'd been waiting for a year for the chance to speak publiclty about the fate of the Marsh Arabs .
3 Because of the recession , stockpiles of ‘ new ’ cars had been waiting for a buyer for up to two years .
4 A shopkeeper had a dispute with a customer , a woman who had been waiting for a bus had popped in to mention parking on the footpath at weekends , the school had organised some Maypole dancing and wondered if part of the car park could be cordoned off , somebody else wanted vehicle watch forms .
5 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 .
6 He put aside being lonely for a moment , and realized that hunger had been waiting for an opportunity to make-itself felt .
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