Example sentences of "[verb] [be] wait " in BNC.
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| 1 | Prior to the conference , the US official line has been to wait until a link between carbon dioxide and global warming became proven . |
| 2 | No , he wrote , because Diana herself does not acknowledge either that she has been waiting all her life for him to appear . |
| 3 | Industrial Light and Magic 's construction of a realistic creature made of water in The Abyss is the kind of job the ‘ synthetic reality ’ wing of the computer animation business has been waiting for . |
| 4 | Jenny Pitman is another who has been waiting for the rain before releasing a very strong team . |
| 5 | The kennel maid remarked , ‘ There 's something queer about that animal , she has been waiting for you since early this morning . |
| 6 | The Blackrag Madonna , it appears , has been waiting for him . |
| 7 | Roger Bootle , chief economist at stockbrokers Greenwell Montagu , said yesterday : ‘ I think the recovery has been waiting to happen for the last couple of months . |
| 8 | DHA 1 has been waiting patiently for a new DGH for 25 years . |
| 9 | The poor boy has been waiting , so patiently . |
| 10 | It 's their last song , the one everyone has been waiting for , it 's their biggest hit — it 's a hysterical cock-up . |
| 11 | Simpkin , the inventor of a new set of kicking tees used by his players in Catania , has been waiting to hear from the International Board on his amateur status , allegedly jeopardised by his involvement in a professional capacity with the Hong Kong Union . |
| 12 | That game proved to be the turning point in the club 's fortunes , and although there have been too many false dawns already in a thus far unsuccessful return , maybe last night 's victory is the break Kendall has been waiting for . |
| 13 | IS THIS the dream ticket America has been waiting for — presidential hopeful Bill Clinton and superstar Barbra Streisand ? |
| 14 | He has been waiting two years for a donor and carries a bleeper everywhere — waiting for the call telling him one has been found at last . |
| 15 | Bowie has already made a name for himself as an actor in a string of top movies , including The Hunger and The Man Who Fell To Earth , but this is the TV break he has been waiting for . |
| 16 | Mum Cheryl needs a heart-lung transplant but she has been waiting in vain for a donor since January . |
| 17 | But Price , who has been waiting for his first major title since blowing the British Open ten years ago , said : ‘ I learned from his example , watching his Open triumph at Muirfield . ’ |
| 18 | Although the City has recommended for the past year that Quality go public , the company has been waiting for the right moment . |
| 19 | A case involving a company called Coloroll has been waiting for resolution by the European Court . |
| 20 | So now he is my enemy , I have touched his pride , and he has been waiting only the moment to humiliate me … ’ |
| 21 | ‘ Barbados has been waiting for a hotel of this calibre for a very long time . ’ |
| 22 | He has been waiting for the right offer for some time after turning down an approach from Italian club Pisa several seasons ago . |
| 23 | That news will come as a welcome relief to the authority , which has been waiting for more than three months for a reply from the Home Secretary . |
| 24 | Is the Chancellor aware that not so long ago I met a chap in Blackpool who said to me , ’ When you see that Chancellor of the Duchy , tell him that I want to give him a piece of my mind : not only is the poll tax three times higher than the rates , but I have lost my job , my wife has been waiting for an operation for two years , my daughter has lost her maternity grant through this Tory Government and my son has lost his income support — so when you see the chairman of the Tory party , will you tell him that I want to meet him to discuss this matter at the top of the Blackpool Tower ? ’ |
| 25 | The Chancellor has been waiting for Father Christmas since the spring , and I do not think that Father Christmas will arrive for him before 25 December . |
| 26 | And Mr has been waiting patiently . |
| 27 | You can also tell at a glance which lines are in use , how long each incoming call has been waiting , and even when each guest is scheduled to leave . |
| 28 | Thus ( 15a ) presupposes that the person referred to by I has been waiting for news about someone whom he thought to be in danger , whereas ( 15b ) does not , and might be said rather by someone who is comparing himself with other people who do not know this fact . |
| 29 | I feel that he has been waiting for me to get home so he can demonstrate this talent . |
| 30 | For more than 2 years , Richard Goodsell , from Henley , has been waiting for an operation on an arthritic finger . |