Example sentences of "[noun] had been waiting [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Marie had been waiting for him out in the car-park . |
| 2 | The car had been waiting for him . |
| 3 | It was obvious to Michael and Geoffrey that the car had been waiting for them . |
| 4 | Because of the recession , stockpiles of ‘ new ’ cars had been waiting for a buyer for up to two years . |
| 5 | Was this what Edward had been waiting for ? |
| 6 | This was the tonic which the nuclear industry had been waiting for — a government which was both strongly sympathetic to its point of view , and prepared to make firm decisions . |
| 7 | But he had barely been gone for an hour when there came the signal that Thorfinn had been waiting for . |
| 8 | Gravier 's wife and child and parents had been waiting for him at Acapulco . |
| 9 | The government had already agreed to meeting Unita this week and the UN had been waiting for Unita to set the date , UN officials said . |
| 10 | Her feeling was that Meryl had been waiting for someone … |
| 11 | Although the citadel had been rebuilt by the Emperor Gia Long in 1802 , its palaces and temples had been designed and constructed faithfully in the style favoured by China 's Ming emperors and at the entrance to the Dai Noi , the Imperial City itself , Tran Van Hieu had been waiting for him in the shadow of the Ngo Mon , the " Bull Gate " roofed in gold tiles like the Gate of Heavenly Peace in Peking . |
| 12 | Rab had been waiting for him . |
| 13 | Mr McIntyre said the development at Hafton House was the turnaround in fortunes the community had been waiting for since the Holy Loch US Navy base was closed last March . |
| 14 | It was as if a sick national organism had been waiting for the right , suitably appalling , symptom to erupt into general protest at its fate . |
| 15 | The commando had been waiting with disciplined patience some 400 yards ( 365m ) out . |
| 16 | I will store the incident with the others ; this one feels like the straw my back had been waiting for . |
| 17 | Mrs Shirley Hayden , headteacher of Our Lady 's school in nearby Crowthorne , Berks , said : ‘ Oliver had been waiting for his mother to pick him up as usual at 3.15pm . |
| 18 | A ship containing 800 tonnes of food , fuel and medicines sent by the ICRC had been waiting off Mogadishu 's docks , unable to unload , since early November . |
| 19 | He put aside being lonely for a moment , and realized that hunger had been waiting for an opportunity to make-itself felt . |
| 20 | People had been waiting for years for freedom ‘ and they 've now had enough ’ . |
| 21 | My hon. Friend may remember that , in 1980 , a quarter of a million people had been waiting for more than two months for telephones to be connected . |
| 22 | Dowd had been waiting for this man , Matthias McGann , to say his piece . |
| 23 | About half of the patients had been waiting for their notes for less than six weeks , but 19 had been waiting for over six months , 14 for over a year , and six for over two years . |
| 24 | Tobacco advertising through sponsorship and billboards had been waiting like the last prisoners on death row for eight months following a cabinet announcement in April 1992 that the end of their last ditch stand was nigh . |
| 25 | By then , some of the crowd had been waiting for 5 or 6 hours and many were becoming restive . |
| 26 | By a coincidence the letter had been waiting for her on her dressing-table when she had got in from the pictures the previous night , just after she had been thinking and talking of Hilda . |
| 27 | An hour later the village bobby was let into the house by Mr Lawson , and shortly afterwards they emerged together for the Chancellor to give the message the world 's money markets had been waiting for . |
| 28 | On her return , Michel had been waiting on the platform with a gun in his hand but could not bring himself to shoot . |
| 29 | Michell 's work provided the opportunity researchers had been waiting for and Pat Gadsby and Chris Hutton-Squire , of the alternative technology magazine , Undercurrents , took up the challenge . |
| 30 | Boisson had been waiting for them . |