Example sentences of "been waiting for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have been waiting for a lift for four hours . |
| 2 | The length of time they have been waiting for a house or factors such as overcrowding and damp are far more important than marital status , Mrs Smith said . |
| 3 | Because of the recession , stockpiles of ‘ new ’ cars had been waiting for a buyer for up to two years . |
| 4 | ‘ I have been waiting for a long time to get my hands on this one ’ , a review of Nicolson by Kingsley Amis began . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | ‘ Barbados has been waiting for a hotel of this calibre for a very long time . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ For many years we have been waiting for a mighty star to appear in the heavens and now it has . |
| 8 | The fog lifted and the house became filled with a babble of excitable people , few of whom spoke English and who all arrived at once because they 'd been waiting for a clear passage . |
| 9 | For two years Kelly 's been waiting for a heart and lung transplant , the only cure for her condition . |
| 10 | They 'd been waiting for a council house for 5 years . |
| 11 | Prince Charles said he 'd been waiting for a year for the chance to speak publiclty about the fate of the Marsh Arabs . |
| 12 | A shopkeeper had a dispute with a customer , a woman who had been waiting for a bus had popped in to mention parking on the footpath at weekends , the school had organised some Maypole dancing and wondered if part of the car park could be cordoned off , somebody else wanted vehicle watch forms . |
| 13 | Columbia 's payload has been waiting for a shuttle ride since nineteen eighty six . |
| 14 | We 've been waiting for the knight in shining armour and then there is n't one . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Jenny Pitman is another who has been waiting for the rain before releasing a very strong team . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Afterwards , he felt it had been as if each of them had been waiting for the other to touch on a delicate subject . |
| 20 | ‘ It 's as if people have been waiting for the Autumn Statement . ’ |
| 21 | He had been waiting for the spirit warrior his father had told him of in infancy , the One-Eyed White Girl . |
| 22 | Although the City has recommended for the past year that Quality go public , the company has been waiting for the right moment . |
| 23 | I believe she used to be so reluctant about marrying people because marriage is important to her , she 's only been waiting for the right one . ’ |
| 24 | He has been waiting for the right offer for some time after turning down an approach from Italian club Pisa several seasons ago . |
| 25 | He 's been waiting for the past half-hour . ’ |
| 26 | Miss Gregg told detectives her mother had been waiting for the handyman to call at the time of her death . |
| 27 | ‘ Some of the Wimbledon Dharjees , ’ went on Maisie , ‘ have been waiting for the Twenty-fourth Imam . |
| 28 | But most of us have been waiting for the results of the Concorde trial . ’ |
| 29 | The gunman is believed to have been waiting for the women and chidren to come out of the shop . |
| 30 | 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 . |