Example sentences of "the [noun] [vb past] [been] waiting " in BNC.
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1 | The car had been waiting for him . |
2 | It was obvious to Michael and Geoffrey that the car had been waiting for them . |
3 | Mr McIntyre said the development at Hafton House was the turnaround in fortunes the community had been waiting for since the Holy Loch US Navy base was closed last March . |
4 | The government had already agreed to meeting Unita this week and the UN had been waiting for Unita to set the date , UN officials said . |
5 | The commando had been waiting with disciplined patience some 400 yards ( 365m ) out . |
6 | The room just along the corridor from where the Marshal had been waiting was stuffy and fetid with the smell of old unwashed clothing and mothballs . |
7 | A ship containing 800 tonnes of food , fuel and medicines sent by the ICRC had been waiting off Mogadishu 's docks , unable to unload , since early November . |
8 | About half of the patients had been waiting for their notes for less than six weeks , but 19 had been waiting for over six months , 14 for over a year , and six for over two years . |
9 | By a coincidence the letter had been waiting for her on her dressing-table when she had got in from the pictures the previous night , just after she had been thinking and talking of Hilda . |
10 | By then , some of the crowd had been waiting for 5 or 6 hours and many were becoming restive . |
11 | The horses had been waiting for it . |
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 . ’ |