Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] been waiting for [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 | She 'd been waiting for Christine , but Christine had n't come . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | All afternoon she had been waiting for evidence of the racing rumour-machine at work . |
| 7 | Phoebe woke up quickly , as though she had been waiting for Maggie 's summons , but not quickly enough . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | She had been waiting for Silas to assert himself and knew that sooner or later an outburst of authority must come from him . |
| 10 | ‘ We 've been waiting for ages , ’ said Angalo . |
| 11 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 12 | It had been waiting for weeks . |
| 13 | I found him in the Grange garden , where he had been waiting for news all night . |