Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] be wait for [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Actually , I 'd been waiting for somebody else but I just happened to be on hand and I could n't just stand there and watch her struggle with all those boxes , suitcases , typewriters , bicycles , stereo systems and so on . |
| 2 | ‘ Well , I 'd been waiting for her , too ! |
| 3 | What I did was to wait for him to unbolt the door , which opens outwards . |
| 4 | She 'd been waiting for you . ’ |
| 5 | It was as if she had been waiting for him for all these years . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | All the time she had been waiting for him to call , it had been there … |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | They 'd been waiting for me , it seemed , in a mutual absence of civility . |
| 10 | They had been waiting for them , forewarned , rifles at the ready . |
| 11 | Theodora replaced the mouthpiece and the telephone shrilled again as though it had been waiting for her to release its ring . |
| 12 | He had been waiting for her to go to bed . |
| 13 | He had been waiting for her , it seemed . |
| 14 | He had been waiting for his visa for three months . |