Example sentences of "[been] [vb pp] wait for " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Ferryhill driver has also been instructed to wait for the arrival of the Crook bus before pulling out . |
| 2 | Jesus took Peter , James and John into the garden , the rest of the disciples having been told to wait for them . |
| 3 | Ebert , Fest and I. We were after the assassins of the T'ang 's Minister , Lwo Kang , and had been told to wait for a contact from our Triad connections there . |
| 4 | The reason is that s.2(3) provides that , for the purposes of s.2(1) ( b ) in this situation only , the creditor is deemed to have been induced to wait for payment . |
| 5 | The time that would have been spent waiting for the Department of Social Security to answer the telephone might instead have been used to uncover what Sally 's own priorities are . |
| 6 | She claims she has been forced to wait for him to call her from phone boxes . |
| 7 | After I had been kept waiting for a few moments in an ante-room , I was ushered into the main boardroom where Dr Barton and six colleagues were seated around a long , rectangular , polished table . |
| 8 | She reached across the desk , grabbed the instrument and began tapping out a number with the angry , impatient air of someone who has been kept waiting for an unacceptably long time . |
| 9 | Powerhouse walked out after complaining that they had been kept waiting for 40 minutes for the court and Components Bureau claimed the points by default and then appealed unsuccessfully against the Scottish Association 's decision to rearrange the fixture . |