Example sentences of "[been] waiting [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Luke and Sonny knew he was coming on the afternoon train ; they should have been waiting at the railway station with the horse and trap . |
| 2 | ‘ Police have been waiting at the top to take the things off them . ’ |
| 3 | A Piper Chieftain , belonging to UNACO , had been waiting at Orly Airport to fly them on to Strasbourg . |
| 4 | Irena produced a suit from somewhere — I had nothing appropriate to wear and the Czechs dress up to go out — and on a cold wet evening Miroslav , who once behind his bassoon could n't stop smiling , dragged me in off Red Army Square where I 'd been waiting under an umbrella watching a group of Czech soldiers trying to stand up , and escorted me up to the balcony of the Fucik Hall to watch the performance . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | She 'd been waiting outside his office for the best part of three hours when his secretary came to tell her that he 'd just phoned in . |
| 7 | The child 's corpse must have been loaded onto some form of transport that had been waiting beyond the yard . |
| 8 | Begin the list with the projects that have been waiting to be finished for the longest period of time . |
| 9 | They say they have been waiting to be moved from the ‘ temporary accommodation ’ ever since . |
| 10 | They say they have been waiting to be moved from the ‘ temporary accommodation ’ ever since . |
| 11 | Everyone had been waiting on tenterhooks on the platform , as they had been technically ready for more than a day . |
| 12 | She had been waiting on Dreadnought to watch the water coming in through the main leak . |
| 13 | If someone had valuables hidden in the hypocaust , he must have been waiting on thorns for the chance to get his hoard away , and baulked all day by staff and visitors wandering around . |
| 14 | ‘ They should have been waiting on Victoria station , checking each train that came in . ’ |
| 15 | Essentially those who felt themselves to be excluded from power decided to support a perfectly plausible claimant to the throne who had been waiting on the sidelines for such a following to materialize . |
| 16 | On her return , Michel had been waiting on the platform with a gun in his hand but could not bring himself to shoot . |
| 17 | So I mean she 's been waiting on that erm place down Junction Road but they , you know , we 've had nothing from . |
| 18 | People had been waiting for years for freedom ‘ and they 've now had enough ’ . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | One day in the shop she 'd been waiting for Malcolm 's girlfriend and partner , Vivienne Westwood — they 'd been planning to go somewhere but Vivienne had n't turned up , she 'd phoned to tell this American girl that . |
| 21 | Phoebe woke up quickly , as though she had been waiting for Maggie 's summons , but not quickly enough . |
| 22 | We 've been waiting for the knight in shining armour and then there is n't one . |
| 23 | McNeill said : ‘ I have been waiting for two days for this supposed written offer . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Jenny Pitman is another who has been waiting for the rain before releasing a very strong team . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Marie had been waiting for him out in the car-park . |
| 29 | We , the readers of the narrative , have been waiting for this moment ever since the concluding words of the book of Numbers : ‘ These are the commandments and the ordinances which the Lord commanded by Moses to the people of Israel in the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho . ’ |
| 30 | Truth to tell , we have been waiting for it since Genesis 12 . |