Example sentences of "[vb base] be waiting for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So it 's really settling in and I 've been waiting for that to happen . ’ |
| 2 | I 've been waiting for that featherbrained bird to buzz off , ’ said the frog . |
| 3 | that 's what I 've been waiting for that ten , ten do it again |
| 4 | Like here in the north of Australia , I 've been waiting for two days for the light I need for a shot of some valleys . |
| 5 | ‘ I 've been waiting for two hours . ’ |
| 6 | I 've been waiting for four or five games , so it 's a bit of a relief . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ I 've been waiting for this , ’ says Iain . |
| 8 | I 've been waiting for this moment all week . |
| 9 | I 've been waiting for this for so long that I do n't think I can wait any longer — ’ |
| 10 | I 've been waiting for this chance since the days of the Witch of Endor . |
| 11 | I just said , goodness , I said we 've been waiting for this parcel since before Christmas and he says oh have you duck . |
| 12 | I 've been waiting for this day all week . |
| 13 | I 've been waiting for forty years for it |
| 14 | Is this what we have been waiting for all these years , the answer that has so far eluded us ? |
| 15 | McNeill said : ‘ I have been waiting for two days for this supposed written offer . |
| 16 | One is , none of the departments are resourced to give this a lot of attention , and secondly we have been waiting for further guidance from the Government on the outcome , particularly from local government , in respect of agenda twenty-one . |
| 17 | We , the readers of the narrative , have been waiting for this moment ever since the concluding words of the book of Numbers : ‘ These are the commandments and the ordinances which the Lord commanded by Moses to the people of Israel in the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ I have been waiting for this , you know . |
| 19 | They have been waiting for these choice morsels — dessert . |
| 20 | I have been waiting for some time for hon. Members to refer to my apparel and I am duly flattered . |