Example sentences of "have been waiting for " in BNC.
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| 1 | McNeill said : ‘ I have been waiting for two days for this supposed written offer . |
| 2 | 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 . ’ |
| 3 | Truth to tell , we have been waiting for it since Genesis 12 . |
| 4 | ‘ I have been waiting for this , you know . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | ‘ We have come to liberate their country ; they have been waiting for us . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ You must be the one , ’ said the young woman , ‘ You must be the one I have been waiting for , who must release me from enchantment . |
| 8 | I have been waiting for a lift for four hours . |
| 9 | They have been waiting for these choice morsels — dessert . |
| 10 | That 's why Sangenic is the invention that disposable nappies have been waiting for . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Ever since the 1917 Revolution , Russian women have been waiting for things to improve — and they are still waiting . |
| 13 | THE golden moment millions of TV viewers have been waiting for goes on air tonight . |
| 14 | Is this what we have been waiting for all these years , the answer that has so far eluded us ? |
| 15 | ‘ This is the boost we have been waiting for , ’ says sales director Malcolm Prior . |
| 16 | ‘ It 's as if people have been waiting for the Autumn Statement . ’ |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | ‘ I have been waiting for a long time to get my hands on this one ’ , a review of Nicolson by Kingsley Amis began . |
| 19 | Community nurses have been waiting for news about how they are to be organised for some time , and uncertainty about the future is always bad for morale . |
| 20 | NOW , Creggan , is the time we have been waiting for . |
| 21 | We have been waiting for nearly fifty years . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ For many years we have been waiting for a mighty star to appear in the heavens and now it has . |
| 23 | ‘ There is no magic solution to this issue and employees who smoke will need to harness their own willpower , but the ban could be the kind of incentive that some smokers have been waiting for to help them reduce or stop smoking and improve their general health . ’ |
| 24 | Charlotte and Alexander have been waiting for years . |
| 25 | The House may be interested to know that , because we were seeking to look at the effect of NHS management reforms over the first six months , we did not draw attention to the fact that the number of people who have been waiting for more than one year on in-patient lists is 37 per cent . |
| 26 | I have been waiting for some time for hon. Members to refer to my apparel and I am duly flattered . |
| 27 | We must , surely , eventually get to recovery , but we have been waiting for it for a long time . |
| 28 | ‘ Some of the Wimbledon Dharjees , ’ went on Maisie , ‘ have been waiting for the Twenty-fourth Imam . |
| 29 | You are the one we have been waiting for . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ We , the Children of the Revolution , have been waiting for you to aid us . |