Example sentences of "[been] wait [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have been waiting each day to hear if you had decided to marry that idiot in England . ’ |
| 2 | It 's just that you have been waiting all afternoon for it to arrive and now have little choice but to try and bludgeon your way through the waves of cover tacklers . |
| 3 | We had been waiting all Genesis for words like those . |
| 4 | Then worries rush into her consciousness , as into his , like clamorous patients who have been waiting all night for the doctor 's surgery to open ; but she deals with them in a rational , orderly manner . |
| 5 | Later , over coffee , Steven broached the subject that he had been waiting all day to discuss with Jennifer . |
| 6 | And at last Sergeant heard the voice he had been waiting all day to hear : |
| 7 | It was as though she had secretly been waiting all evening for this moment , for this invitation to walk along the beach with him . |
| 8 | At last she could admit honestly to herself that some part of her had been waiting all evening for this moment when her own self-imposed barriers would be swept away . |