Example sentences of "[been] waiting for the [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | He had been waiting for the spirit warrior his father had told him of in infancy , the One-Eyed White Girl . |
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 | We 've been waiting for the knight in shining armour and then there is n't one . |
4 | The gunman is believed to have been waiting for the women and chidren to come out of the shop . |
5 | Miss Gregg told detectives her mother had been waiting for the handyman to call at the time of her death . |
6 | Jenny Pitman is another who has been waiting for the rain before releasing a very strong team . |
7 | I 've been waiting for the battery to run down . |
8 | But most of us have been waiting for the results of the Concorde trial . ’ |
9 | Well , we 've been waiting for the protractors , we have n't been |
10 | ‘ It 's as if people have been waiting for the Autumn Statement . ’ |
11 | 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 . |