Example sentences of "[been] wait for [det] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Dowd had been waiting for this man , Matthias McGann , to say his piece .
2 Tuesday — could it really be only Tuesday when now every cell of her body was alight with a feedback intelligence that told her she had been waiting for this man all her life …
3 I 've been waiting for this day all week .
4 It was as if Chambers bad been waiting for this admission .
5 I just said , goodness , I said we 've been waiting for this parcel since before Christmas and he says oh have you duck .
6 I 've been waiting for this chance since the days of the Witch of Endor .
7 How long have you been waiting for this car , a while have n't you Spen ?
8 As everyone turned to look at him , Jinny realized that he had been waiting for this moment all the time he was explaining his plan .
9 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 . ’
10 It was as if she had been waiting for this moment for four years or more .
11 She 'd been waiting for this moment for so long , and all she could do , now that it had finally arrived , was think the worst of him , instead of simply being happy to see him again .
12 I 've been waiting for this moment all week .
13 Alec d'Urberville , who had been waiting for this moment , appeared at her side .
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 . ’
15 I 'd been waiting for some opportunity to show off , to draw attention to myself .
16 She must have been waiting for some time .
17 He looked as if he had been waiting for some time .
18 I have been waiting for some time for hon. Members to refer to my apparel and I am duly flattered .
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