Example sentences of "she had been waiting for " in BNC.
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1 | Phoebe woke up quickly , as though she had been waiting for Maggie 's summons , but not quickly enough . |
2 | That was what she had been waiting for , that unguarded , unforced , totally natural reaction of a lowly apprentice who sees her work unfold like a fairytale . |
3 | And that , then , was what she had been waiting for . |
4 | All afternoon she had been waiting for evidence of the racing rumour-machine at work . |
5 | It was as if she had been waiting for him for all these years . |
6 | She had been waiting for him to bring up the subject and was not surprised when he did so that very evening , although not , as she had anticipated , because of the eminently satisfactory report from her gynaecologist but for another reason altogether . |
7 | It was as if she had been waiting for this moment for four years or more . |
8 | This was what she had been waiting for since she had first met him though she had never admitted it to herself until now . |
9 | Jessamy had been thinking about it while she had been waiting for Julius to return with the blankets , and she thought she knew the answer . |
10 | All the time she had been waiting for him to call , it had been there … |
11 | 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 … |
12 | Now was the moment she had been waiting for . |
13 | She had been waiting for Silas to assert himself and knew that sooner or later an outburst of authority must come from him . |