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Example sentences of "have be waiting [prep] the " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	Jenny Pitman is another who has been waiting for the rain before releasing a very strong team .
2	Although the City has recommended for the past year that Quality go public , the company has been waiting for the right moment .
3	He has been waiting for the right offer for some time after turning down an approach from Italian club Pisa several seasons ago .
4	An anxious mother has been waiting by the telephone to hear if her son faces a long jail term in India .
5	Luke and Sonny knew he was coming on the afternoon train ; they should have been waiting at the railway station with the horse and trap .
6	Whoever it was must have been waiting by the telephone for the call .
7	At best , he should have been waiting until the morning and then politely requesting a desk and a telephone and an interpreter somewhere in the back reaches of their Counter-Terrorism building .
8	On his return Geoffrey should have been waiting in the wings to assist him into his pirate coat — the hook attached to the sleeve rendered it cumbersome .
9	The gunman is believed to have been waiting for the women and chidren to come out of the shop .
10	The banks have been hostile to the plans from the beginning but had been waiting for the right moment to withdraw on commercial rather than political grounds .
11	Afterwards , he felt it had been as if each of them had been waiting for the other to touch on a delicate subject .
12	He had been waiting for the spirit warrior his father had told him of in infancy , the One-Eyed White Girl .
13	Miss Gregg told detectives her mother had been waiting for the handyman to call at the time of her death .
14	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 .
15	Essentially those who felt themselves to be excluded from power decided to support a perfectly plausible claimant to the throne who had been waiting on the sidelines for such a following to materialize .
16	On her return , Michel had been waiting on the platform with a gun in his hand but could not bring himself to shoot .
17	The child 's corpse must have been loaded onto some form of transport that had been waiting beyond the yard .
18	Tobacco advertising through sponsorship and billboards had been waiting like the last prisoners on death row for eight months following a cabinet announcement in April 1992 that the end of their last ditch stand was nigh .
19	While she went to brew coffee Fletcher introduced Patrick and Chris to the man who had been waiting in the sitting room .
20	The man got into the lift with her after he had been waiting in the foyer .
21	We 've been waiting for the knight in shining armour and then there is n't one .
22	I 've been waiting for the battery to run down .
23	Well , we 've been waiting for the protractors , we have n't been
24	Gentlemen ushers in knee-length black tunics fuss about , directing last-minute guests to their seats , although most have been waiting for the best part of an hour , making stilted smalltalk to conceal their pride .
25	Those who have been waiting for the newly published syllabus for Part 2 , which is also to be run at Greenhill starting in the Autumn on Thursdays from 9.30am to 12.30pm , should contact the tutor , Sybil Kenton .
26	‘ It 's as if people have been waiting for the Autumn Statement . ’
27	‘ Some of the Wimbledon Dharjees , ’ went on Maisie , ‘ have been waiting for the Twenty-fourth Imam .
28	But most of us have been waiting for the results of the Concorde trial . ’
29	He said : ‘ I have been waiting for the last three years for an opportunity like this and I see it as the right time in my career to take it .
30	Nevertheless , the good news will bring some welcome relief to those homeowners who have been waiting for the best part of 1991 to sell their home .