Example sentences of "[art] [noun] [verb] been wait for " in BNC.
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| 1 | The car had been waiting for him . |
| 2 | It was obvious to Michael and Geoffrey that the car had been waiting for them . |
| 3 | The Chancellor has been waiting for Father Christmas since the spring , and I do not think that Father Christmas will arrive for him before 25 December . |
| 4 | Mr McIntyre said the development at Hafton House was the turnaround in fortunes the community had been waiting for since the Holy Loch US Navy base was closed last March . |
| 5 | The government had already agreed to meeting Unita this week and the UN had been waiting for Unita to set the date , UN officials said . |
| 6 | About half of the patients had been waiting for their notes for less than six weeks , but 19 had been waiting for over six months , 14 for over a year , and six for over two years . |
| 7 | By a coincidence the letter had been waiting for her on her dressing-table when she had got in from the pictures the previous night , just after she had been thinking and talking of Hilda . |
| 8 | By then , some of the crowd had been waiting for 5 or 6 hours and many were becoming restive . |
| 9 | ROB BEATTIE PICKS UP HIS PEN TO FIND OUT IF THIS SPLIT PERSONALITY MACHINE REALLY IS WHAT THE WORLD 'S BEEN WAITING FOR . |
| 10 | AT LAST it 's here — the God-forsaken rumble the world 's been waiting for ever since it became clear just how deadly a live phenomenon the Rolins Band are . |
| 11 | AT LAST it 's here — the God-forsaken rumble the world 's been waiting for ever since it became clear just how deadly a live phenomenon the Rolins Band are . |
| 12 | The horses had been waiting for it . |
| 13 | Although the City has recommended for the past year that Quality go public , the company has been waiting for the right moment . |
| 14 | Carey continued : ‘ I doubt if He would have been impressed by the argument that the goats had been waiting for these things to trickle down as a by-product of economic growth . ’ |