Example sentences of "[noun sg] have be waiting 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 | This was the tonic which the nuclear industry had been waiting for — a government which was both strongly sympathetic to its point of view , and prepared to make firm decisions . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Industrial Light and Magic 's construction of a realistic creature made of water in The Abyss is the kind of job the ‘ synthetic reality ’ wing of the computer animation business has been waiting for . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | It was as if a sick national organism had been waiting for the right , suitably appalling , symptom to erupt into general protest at its fate . |
| 8 | Is the Chancellor aware that not so long ago I met a chap in Blackpool who said to me , ’ When you see that Chancellor of the Duchy , tell him that I want to give him a piece of my mind : not only is the poll tax three times higher than the rates , but I have lost my job , my wife has been waiting for an operation for two years , my daughter has lost her maternity grant through this Tory Government and my son has lost his income support — so when you see the chairman of the Tory party , will you tell him that I want to meet him to discuss this matter at the top of the Blackpool Tower ? ’ |
| 9 | I will store the incident with the others ; this one feels like the straw my back had been waiting for . |
| 10 | He put aside being lonely for a moment , and realized that hunger had been waiting for an opportunity to make-itself felt . |
| 11 | Rainbow 's been waiting for an opportunity to nudge the conversation round to Stamford Hill . |
| 12 | By then , some of the crowd had been waiting for 5 or 6 hours and many were becoming restive . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | ROB BEATTIE PICKS UP HIS PEN TO FIND OUT IF THIS SPLIT PERSONALITY MACHINE REALLY IS WHAT THE WORLD 'S BEEN WAITING FOR . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Although the City has recommended for the past year that Quality go public , the company has been waiting for the right moment . |
| 18 | Columbia 's payload has been waiting for a shuttle ride since nineteen eighty six . |
| 19 | Miss Gregg told detectives her mother had been waiting for the handyman to call at the time of her death . |