Example sentences of "[vb base] [be] wait for [det] " in BNC.
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1 | So it 's really settling in and I 've been waiting for that to happen . ’ |
2 | I 've been waiting for that featherbrained bird to buzz off , ’ said the frog . |
3 | that 's what I 've been waiting for that ten , ten do it again |
4 | ‘ I 've been waiting for this , ’ says Iain . |
5 | I 've been waiting for this moment all week . |
6 | I 've been waiting for this for so long that I do n't think I can wait any longer — ’ |
7 | I 've been waiting for this chance since the days of the Witch of Endor . |
8 | I just said , goodness , I said we 've been waiting for this parcel since before Christmas and he says oh have you duck . |
9 | I 've been waiting for this day all week . |
10 | Is this what we have been waiting for all these years , the answer that has so far eluded us ? |
11 | We , the readers of the narrative , have been waiting for this moment ever since the concluding words of the book of Numbers : ‘ These are the commandments and the ordinances which the Lord commanded by Moses to the people of Israel in the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho . ’ |
12 | ‘ I have been waiting for this , you know . |
13 | They have been waiting for these choice morsels — dessert . |
14 | I have been waiting for some time for hon. Members to refer to my apparel and I am duly flattered . |