Example sentences of "be [verb] for [pers pn] to come " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well , er the C B I and other bodies are pressing for them to come down at once , er John Major has said it 's only a question of time . |
| 2 | It was a conclusion reinforced by a subsequent telephone conversation with Mr Fairfax-Vane , who convinced me an appointment had indeed been made for him to come here — by a woman clearly younger than me , who spoke with a faintly American accent . |
| 3 | And erm you know , we 're waiting for him to come back and say , Yeah we need to talk . |
| 4 | I sang down the Bottom Club , so when I went down the next week the manager said I 've just been waiting for you , I 've been waiting for you to come in he said so he said , look the group ca n't come he said , will you sing ? |
| 5 | He 's been waiting for you to come off , ai n't I Yun ? |
| 6 | come on then we 've been waiting for you to come , come on |
| 7 | It 's as if she is away staying somewhere , and we are waiting for her to come back , we can not do anything until she returns . |
| 8 | But when you do , you 'd better be prepared for him to come back and hit you on your arms , your chest , that big belly of yours and finally the chin . |
| 9 | My aunt and uncle were waiting for us to come through . |
| 10 | So he 's waiting for you to come up and have a look at it . |
| 11 | so she 's er , she 's waiting for 'em to come to do that , anyway she 's er , somebody rang her did n't they and they asked her if she 'd have a little boy of four months old , Thursdays and Fridays all day and she started this week with him , so I said well Pauline |
| 12 | Although we should be wary of taking all such accounts at face value , since party feeling often ran sufficiently high amongst local inhabitants that little encouragement was needed for them to come to blows , such practices certainly did go on . |
| 13 | He met people , made friends and absent-mindedly let them drive him home to his parents , forgetting the bride upstairs who was waiting for him to come and claim his ‘ marital rights ’ . |
| 14 | She was waiting for him to come home , when Liddy knocked and entered . |
| 15 | She was waiting for him to come back when the telephone rang . |
| 16 | little boy had been to school and his mother and father was waiting for him to come home . |