Example sentences of "[vb past] [been] wait for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The banks have been hostile to the plans from the beginning but had been waiting for the right moment to withdraw on commercial rather than political grounds . |
| 2 | Afterwards , he felt it had been as if each of them had been waiting for the other to touch on a delicate subject . |
| 3 | He had been waiting for the spirit warrior his father had told him of in infancy , the One-Eyed White Girl . |
| 4 | Miss Gregg told detectives her mother had been waiting for the handyman to call at the time of her death . |
| 5 | It was as if a sick national organism had been waiting for the right , suitably appalling , symptom to erupt into general protest at its fate . |