Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] been waiting [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've been waiting for ages . ’ |
| 2 | I 've been waiting for fags since ten o'clock this morning . |
| 3 | I 've been waiting for years for someone to do that . ’ |
| 4 | Marjorie Thomas , 35 , who has been waiting since August 1989 for surgery on an eye condition , said the claims are no consolation . |
| 5 | She 'd been waiting for Christine , but Christine had n't come . |
| 6 | One day in the shop she 'd been waiting for Malcolm 's girlfriend and partner , Vivienne Westwood — they 'd been planning to go somewhere but Vivienne had n't turned up , she 'd phoned to tell this American girl that . |
| 7 | She had been waiting on Dreadnought to watch the water coming in through the main leak . |
| 8 | All afternoon she had been waiting for evidence of the racing rumour-machine at work . |
| 9 | Phoebe woke up quickly , as though she had been waiting for Maggie 's summons , but not quickly enough . |
| 10 | Jessamy had been thinking about it while she had been waiting for Julius to return with the blankets , and she thought she knew the answer . |
| 11 | She had been waiting for Silas to assert himself and knew that sooner or later an outburst of authority must come from him . |
| 12 | On the day on which the Secretary of State gave a pledge to his party conference that everyone would have equal access to free health care , I was contacted by a constituent , Mr. Ronnie Watson , who had been waiting since September 1990 for an appointment with a consultant to discuss a possible hip operation and had just been told that he would have to wait until some unspecified date in 1992 . |
| 13 | ‘ We 've been waiting for ages , ’ said Angalo . |
| 14 | ‘ We have been waiting for grants but there has been some debate about whether croquet is a sport because of the pace it 's played at . ’ |
| 15 | He said : ‘ We have been waiting since April for the sentence but another man could do this . |
| 16 | It had been waiting for weeks . |
| 17 | I found him in the Grange garden , where he had been waiting for news all night . |
| 18 | Everyone had been waiting on tenterhooks on the platform , as they had been technically ready for more than a day . |