Example sentences of "have waited [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The unprecedented admission about the state of the royal marriage yesterday , on the last day of their Korean tour , was what the Princess of Wales has waited since June 7 to hear . |
| 2 | The warning her anxious mother had impressed on her as they 'd waited for Folly 's plane at Athens airport had obviously been quite correct . |
| 3 | Dowd had stayed out of the Retreat all the time he 'd waited for Godolphin ( a wearisome three days ) even though it would have given him some measure of protection against the bitter cold . |
| 4 | He 'd waited for Lucy but then , when she had n't come out alone , he 'd stayed well back in the shadows . |
| 5 | If Panin had had his way , peasants would have waited for land indefinitely . |
| 6 | Mrs Thatcher replied that the government could have waited for inflation to come down . |
| 7 | Youth itself was hardly a disadvantage , in an age when people were ruling kingdoms and leading armies in their teens ; the Stewart kings themselves , all but one beginning his personal rule in his teens , two dead at thirty , and only one surviving beyond the age of forty , could hardly have waited for age and experience to bless their undertakings and achievements . |
| 8 | We 've waited at St Albans . |
| 9 | See what they 've done they 've waited for December have n't they ? |
| 10 | He said : ‘ Do you really think that I 've waited for days and days for you to come back here , just to play bloody party games ? |
| 11 | ‘ We 've waited for years to have a Formula One world champion like Mansell — and now it looks as though we wo n't be able to use him . |
| 12 | ‘ We are happy to support local schemes which wo n't worsen our mainstream business , and while hitherto we 've waited for passenger executives or consortiums to come to us with a proposal , we might in the future consider taking more initiative . ’ |
| 13 | In the small cells the insane had waited on stone beds for the divinely inspired dreams which they believed would offer prescriptions for their cure . |
| 14 | In Madrid civilian liberalism had waited on events . |
| 15 | On the steps of the City Hall he spoke to a crowd of 50,000 who had waited for hours for his appearance . |
| 16 | Hyacinth felt excluded from it all , and rather wished she had waited for Carole Swan , or for Angela Cartwright , the delegation 's leader . |
| 17 | Cold with fear , she had waited for take-off , willing it not to happen , knowing it would . |
| 18 | After the chill of excitement , the ungovernable strangeness of the moment , they had waited for retribution , certain it would come . |
| 19 | The women complained that the officer could only have been on the housing list for a few weeks , while they had waited for periods of between eighteen months and four years . |
| 20 | The day before , on Monday , he had waited for Fanny , as arranged , on the bridge just outside Casterbridge , for over an hour . |
| 21 | The most determined shoppers beat the rush by arriving at shops before the doors opened and some had waited for days to get what they wanted . |
| 22 | The bus stop where the suspect had waited in Piazzale della Radio is served by three lines , the 97 , 97C and 128 . |
| 23 | He did not explain why the CIA had waited until December 1990 , to draw this conclusion when the ‘ proof had been available for at least a year , nor did he explain why no advance warning based on this report , reliable or not , had been passed down the line to those responsible for airline security . |
| 24 | ‘ I have waited at table every day for the last fifty-four years , ’ my father remarked , his voice perfectly unhurried . |
| 25 | Those of us who make our own way there have little conception of the anxiety this may induce , unless , perhaps , we have waited for bedpans in hospital . |
| 26 | As we have waited on God as a group we feel part of our ministry will be intercession and praise . |