Example sentences of "have been waiting [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mum Cheryl needs a heart-lung transplant but she has been waiting in vain for a donor since January . |
| 2 | This was ‘ Ace 's wave ’ , the one he 'd been waiting for all his life . |
| 3 | She 'd been waiting for this moment for so long , and all she could do , now that it had finally arrived , was think the worst of him , instead of simply being happy to see him again . |
| 4 | I 'd been waiting for some opportunity to show off , to draw attention to myself . |
| 5 | She must have been waiting for some time . |
| 6 | Deep inside she seemed to have been waiting like some long-ago damsel in distress , waiting for her knight to rescue her . |
| 7 | In February 1756 reference is made to four illustrations ‘ sent some time since by our friend , Mr. Collinson ’ and Miller said he would have sent others except for the fact that he had been waiting for better colourists . |
| 8 | By then , some of the crowd had been waiting for 5 or 6 hours and many were becoming restive . |
| 9 | I went there and found that people who had been waiting for four hours or more had still not received satisfaction . |
| 10 | As everyone turned to look at him , Jinny realized that he had been waiting for this moment all the time he was explaining his plan . |
| 11 | It was as if she had been waiting for this moment for four years or more . |
| 12 | Dowd had been waiting for this man , Matthias McGann , to say his piece . |
| 13 | Alec d'Urberville , who had been waiting for this moment , appeared at her side . |
| 14 | Tuesday — could it really be only Tuesday when now every cell of her body was alight with a feedback intelligence that told her she had been waiting for this man all her life … |
| 15 | 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 . ’ |
| 16 | He looked as if he had been waiting for some time . |
| 17 | We had been waiting for three days behind Serbian lines . |
| 18 | Some had been waiting for more than an hour , arriving while it was still dark and the little windows of the cells were still lit . |
| 19 | They had been waiting for high water so that they could sail alongside in a civilised manner . |
| 20 | The commando had been waiting with disciplined patience some 400 yards ( 365m ) out . |
| 21 | So it 's really settling in and I 've been waiting for that to happen . ’ |
| 22 | I 've been waiting for that featherbrained bird to buzz off , ’ said the frog . |
| 23 | that 's what I 've been waiting for that ten , ten do it again |
| 24 | Like here in the north of Australia , I 've been waiting for two days for the light I need for a shot of some valleys . |
| 25 | ‘ I 've been waiting for two hours . ’ |
| 26 | I 've been waiting for four or five games , so it 's a bit of a relief . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ I 've been waiting for this , ’ says Iain . |
| 28 | I 've been waiting for this moment all week . |
| 29 | I 've been waiting for this for so long that I do n't think I can wait any longer — ’ |
| 30 | I 've been waiting for this chance since the days of the Witch of Endor . |