Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] [be] 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 . |
| 6 | I will store the incident with the others ; this one feels like the straw my back had been waiting for . |
| 7 | He put aside being lonely for a moment , and realized that hunger had been waiting for an opportunity to make-itself felt . |
| 8 | By then , some of the crowd had been waiting for 5 or 6 hours and many were becoming restive . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Miss Gregg told detectives her mother had been waiting for the handyman to call at the time of her death . |