Example sentences of "[verb] [be] waiting for this [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She 'd been waiting for this moment for so long , and all she could do , now that it had finally arrived , was think the worst of him , instead of simply being happy to see him again . |
| 2 | Dowd had been waiting for this man , Matthias McGann , to say his piece . |
| 3 | Tuesday — could it really be only Tuesday when now every cell of her body was alight with a feedback intelligence that told her she had been waiting for this man all her life … |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | It was as if she had been waiting for this moment for four years or more . |
| 6 | Alec d'Urberville , who had been waiting for this moment , appeared at her side . |
| 7 | I 've been waiting for this day all week . |
| 8 | I just said , goodness , I said we 've been waiting for this parcel since before Christmas and he says oh have you duck . |
| 9 | I 've been waiting for this chance since the days of the Witch of Endor . |
| 10 | I 've been waiting for this moment all week . |
| 11 | 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 . ’ |