Example sentences of "[vb past] been wait for [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | This was ‘ Ace 's wave ’ , the one he 'd been waiting for all his life . |
2 | She 'd been waiting for this moment for so long , and all she could do , now that it had finally arrived , was think the worst of him , instead of simply being happy to see him again . |
3 | I 'd been waiting for some opportunity to show off , to draw attention to myself . |
4 | In February 1756 reference is made to four illustrations ‘ sent some time since by our friend , Mr. Collinson ’ and Miller said he would have sent others except for the fact that he had been waiting for better colourists . |
5 | By then , some of the crowd had been waiting for 5 or 6 hours and many were becoming restive . |
6 | I went there and found that people who had been waiting for four hours or more had still not received satisfaction . |
7 | As everyone turned to look at him , Jinny realized that he had been waiting for this moment all the time he was explaining his plan . |
8 | It was as if she had been waiting for this moment for four years or more . |
9 | Dowd had been waiting for this man , Matthias McGann , to say his piece . |
10 | Alec d'Urberville , who had been waiting for this moment , appeared at her side . |
11 | Tuesday — could it really be only Tuesday when now every cell of her body was alight with a feedback intelligence that told her she had been waiting for this man all her life … |
12 | Carey continued : ‘ I doubt if He would have been impressed by the argument that the goats had been waiting for these things to trickle down as a by-product of economic growth . ’ |
13 | He looked as if he had been waiting for some time . |
14 | We had been waiting for three days behind Serbian lines . |
15 | Some had been waiting for more than an hour , arriving while it was still dark and the little windows of the cells were still lit . |
16 | They had been waiting for high water so that they could sail alongside in a civilised manner . |