Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] been wait for [adj] " in BNC.

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1 I 'd been waiting for some opportunity to show off , to draw attention to myself .
2 Like here in the north of Australia , I 've been waiting for two days for the light I need for a shot of some valleys .
3 I 've been waiting for two hours . ’
4 So it 's really settling in and I 've been waiting for that to happen . ’
5 I 've been waiting for that featherbrained bird to buzz off , ’ said the frog .
6 that 's what I 've been waiting for that ten , ten do it again
7 I 've been waiting for four or five games , so it 's a bit of a relief . ’
8 I 've been waiting for forty years for it
9 I 've been waiting for this , ’ says Iain .
10 I 've been waiting for this moment all week .
11 I 've been waiting for this for so long that I do n't think I can wait any longer — ’
12 I 've been waiting for this chance since the days of the Witch of Endor .
13 I 've been waiting for this day all week .
14 McNeill said : ‘ I have been waiting for two days for this supposed written offer .
15 I have been waiting for some time for hon. Members to refer to my apparel and I am duly flattered .
16 I have been waiting for this , you know .
17 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 .
18 It was as if she had been waiting for this moment for four years or more .
19 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 …
20 I went there and found that people who had been waiting for four hours or more had still not received satisfaction .
21 Alec d'Urberville , who had been waiting for this moment , appeared at her side .
22 I just said , goodness , I said we 've been waiting for this parcel since before Christmas and he says oh have you duck .
23 We had been waiting for three days behind Serbian lines .
24 Is this what we have been waiting for all these years , the answer that has so far eluded us ?
25 One is , none of the departments are resourced to give this a lot of attention , and secondly we have been waiting for further guidance from the Government on the outcome , particularly from local government , in respect of agenda twenty-one .
26 They had been waiting for high water so that they could sail alongside in a civilised manner .
27 They have been waiting for these choice morsels — dessert .
28 This was ‘ Ace 's wave ’ , the one he 'd been waiting for all his life .
29 In February 1756 reference is made to four illustrations ‘ sent some time since by our friend , Mr. Collinson ’ and Miller said he would have sent others except for the fact that he had been waiting for better colourists .
30 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 .
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