Example sentences of "he [vb past] [be] waiting for " in BNC.

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1 This was ‘ Ace 's wave ’ , the one he 'd been waiting for all his life .
2 All that bottled-up vitriol for the man he 'd been waiting for had actually been for her .
3 Prince Charles said he 'd been waiting for a year for the chance to speak publiclty about the fate of the Marsh Arabs .
4 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 .
5 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 .
6 This was the moment he had been waiting for since his ordination .
7 He had been waiting for the spirit warrior his father had told him of in infancy , the One-Eyed White Girl .
8 One particularly nasty German television journalist informed me that he had been waiting for a month and if anyone was getting near Ortega , it was him .
9 He had been waiting for her to go to bed .
10 Then finally , Paul Reichmann saw the opportunity he had been waiting for in London , a city he fondly recalled from the days when he studied there as a young man .
11 He had been waiting for his visa for three months .
12 He looked as if he had been waiting for some time .
13 It was what he had been waiting for .
14 I found him in the Grange garden , where he had been waiting for news all night .
15 He had been waiting for her , it seemed .
16 The book was all he had been waiting for , and all was going according to plan .
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