Example sentences of "have been waiting for the " in BNC.
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| 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 | The gunman is believed to have been waiting for the women and chidren to come out of the shop . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Afterwards , he felt it had been as if each of them had been waiting for the other to touch on a delicate subject . |
| 7 | He had been waiting for the spirit warrior his father had told him of in infancy , the One-Eyed White Girl . |
| 8 | Miss Gregg told detectives her mother had been waiting for the handyman to call at the time of her death . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | We 've been waiting for the knight in shining armour and then there is n't one . |
| 11 | I 've been waiting for the battery to run down . |
| 12 | Well , we 've been waiting for the protractors , we have n't been |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | ‘ It 's as if people have been waiting for the Autumn Statement . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ Some of the Wimbledon Dharjees , ’ went on Maisie , ‘ have been waiting for the Twenty-fourth Imam . |
| 17 | But most of us have been waiting for the results of the Concorde trial . ’ |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | He 's been waiting for the past half-hour . ’ |