Example sentences of "have [be] waiting [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He has been waiting two years for a donor and carries a bleeper everywhere — waiting for the call telling him one has been found at last . |
| 2 | World War 1 veteran Mr Brownbill has been waiting two years to see if his application for a house renovation grant would be successful . |
| 3 | World War I veteran Mr Brownbill has been waiting two years to see if his application for a house renovation grant would be successful . |
| 4 | We had been waiting all Genesis for words like those . |
| 5 | Later , over coffee , Steven broached the subject that he had been waiting all day to discuss with Jennifer . |
| 6 | And at last Sergeant heard the voice he had been waiting all day to hear : |
| 7 | At last she could admit honestly to herself that some part of her had been waiting all evening for this moment when her own self-imposed barriers would be swept away . |
| 8 | I said I 've been waiting six months now , I 've given my life six months to wait for a job , I said , you ca n't get experience if you 're not given chances |
| 9 | and they say I 've been waiting seventeen years for this pollack , or having your tooth out or having your tonsils extracted |
| 10 | Then worries rush into her consciousness , as into his , like clamorous patients who have been waiting all night for the doctor 's surgery to open ; but she deals with them in a rational , orderly manner . |
| 11 | It 's just that you have been waiting all afternoon for it to arrive and now have little choice but to try and bludgeon your way through the waves of cover tacklers . |
| 12 | I have been waiting each day to hear if you had decided to marry that idiot in England . ’ |
| 13 | By Claire 's watch they have been waiting eleven minutes . |
| 14 | Not after she 's been waiting 200 years to get her hands on the last of the Gittels . |