Example sentences of "[verb] be wait for [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Blackrag Madonna , it appears , has been waiting for him . |
| 2 | I feel that he has been waiting for me to get home so he can demonstrate this talent . |
| 3 | The kennel maid remarked , ‘ There 's something queer about that animal , she has been waiting for you since early this morning . |
| 4 | ‘ Well , I 'd been waiting for her , too ! |
| 5 | They 'd been waiting for me , it seemed , in a mutual absence of civility . |
| 6 | She 'd been waiting for you . ’ |
| 7 | All we can do is wait for it to pass through . |
| 8 | He was making for a taxi , which might well have been waiting for him . |
| 9 | Chuck 's waiting for me . |
| 10 | He did n't explain why it was going to be helpful and the pilot told him the car he 'd specified was waiting for them . |
| 11 | What I did was to wait for him to unbolt the door , which opens outwards . |
| 12 | But when she had joined Sausage , who had been waiting for her outside , she bent and stroked his curly head , and two large tears rolled down her cheeks and splashed on to his fur . |
| 13 | He had been waiting for her to go to bed . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | He had been waiting for her , it seemed . |
| 16 | Theodora replaced the mouthpiece and the telephone shrilled again as though it had been waiting for her to release its ring . |
| 17 | Marie had been waiting for him out in the car-park . |
| 18 | Rab had been waiting for him . |
| 19 | It was as if she had been waiting for him for all these years . |
| 20 | She had been waiting for him to bring up the subject and was not surprised when he did so that very evening , although not , as she had anticipated , because of the eminently satisfactory report from her gynaecologist but for another reason altogether . |
| 21 | The car had been waiting for him . |
| 22 | Gravier 's wife and child and parents had been waiting for him at Acapulco . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | All the time she had been waiting for him to call , it had been there … |
| 25 | They had been waiting for them , forewarned , rifles at the ready . |
| 26 | ‘ It seems as if John had been waiting for them to leave . |
| 27 | It was obvious to Michael and Geoffrey that the car had been waiting for them . |
| 28 | Boisson had been waiting for them . |
| 29 | The horses had been waiting for it . |
| 30 | I 've been waiting for him all my life . |