Example sentences of "[pers pn] have [been] waiting [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Pretty much what happened was that I 'd been waiting all this time to be successful , to achieve whatever I was going to achieve , now I had and I was sitting in this flippin' hotel thinking : This is not where it 's at . |
| 2 | I said I 've been waiting six months now , I 've given my life six months to wait for a job , I said , you ca n't get experience if you 're not given chances |
| 3 | I 've been waiting all this time for a baby , but I must admit the carrying of it is more tiring than I 'd expected . ’ |
| 4 | and they say I 've been waiting seventeen years for this pollack , or having your tooth out or having your tonsils extracted |
| 5 | I 've been waiting half an hour . |
| 6 | I have been waiting each day to hear if you had decided to marry that idiot in England . ’ |
| 7 | No , he wrote , because Diana herself does not acknowledge either that she has been waiting all her life for him to appear . |
| 8 | She 'd been waiting all her life for this man , this moment . |
| 9 | Like me , you 've been waiting all these years , whether you knew it or not . ’ |
| 10 | It was as if she had been waiting all her life to find this man , this moment . |
| 11 | It 's just that you have been waiting all afternoon for it to arrive and now have little choice but to try and bludgeon your way through the waves of cover tacklers . |
| 12 | Not after she 's been waiting 200 years to get her hands on the last of the Gittels . |
| 13 | Halfway outbound in the hold the scheduled traffic for which we 'd been waiting landed , and we swooped down , just catching the ILS . |
| 14 | We had been waiting all Genesis for words like those . |
| 15 | By Claire 's watch they have been waiting eleven minutes . |
| 16 | He has been waiting two years for a donor and carries a bleeper everywhere — waiting for the call telling him one has been found at last . |
| 17 | Later , over coffee , Steven broached the subject that he had been waiting all day to discuss with Jennifer . |
| 18 | And at last Sergeant heard the voice he had been waiting all day to hear : |