Example sentences of "he [verb] [be] waiting for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bowie has already made a name for himself as an actor in a string of top movies , including The Hunger and The Man Who Fell To Earth , but this is the TV break he has been waiting for . |
| 2 | He has been waiting for the right offer for some time after turning down an approach from Italian club Pisa several seasons ago . |
| 3 | I feel that he has been waiting for me to get home so he can demonstrate this talent . |
| 4 | He has been waiting for his allowance since first putting in a claim for the new benefit on April 24 , more than six months ago . |
| 5 | This was ‘ Ace 's wave ’ , the one he 'd been waiting for all his life . |
| 6 | All that bottled-up vitriol for the man he 'd been waiting for had actually been for her . |
| 7 | Prince Charles said he 'd been waiting for a year for the chance to speak publiclty about the fate of the Marsh Arabs . |
| 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 | In February 1756 reference is made to four illustrations ‘ sent some time since by our friend , Mr. Collinson ’ and Miller said he would have sent others except for the fact that he had been waiting for better colourists . |
| 10 | This was the moment he had been waiting for since his ordination . |
| 11 | He had been waiting for the spirit warrior his father had told him of in infancy , the One-Eyed White Girl . |
| 12 | One particularly nasty German television journalist informed me that he had been waiting for a month and if anyone was getting near Ortega , it was him . |
| 13 | He had been waiting for her to go to bed . |
| 14 | Then finally , Paul Reichmann saw the opportunity he had been waiting for in London , a city he fondly recalled from the days when he studied there as a young man . |
| 15 | He had been waiting for his visa for three months . |
| 16 | He looked as if he had been waiting for some time . |
| 17 | It was what he had been waiting for . |
| 18 | I found him in the Grange garden , where he had been waiting for news all night . |
| 19 | He had been waiting for her , it seemed . |
| 20 | The book was all he had been waiting for , and all was going according to plan . |
| 21 | Since then he 's been waiting for him higher up on various tracks . |
| 22 | He told Husband he 'd have to consult with the rest of the private Office and maybe even the PM before he could agree to them interrogating you ; he may actually be doing that , for all I know , though I think it 's more likely he 's been waiting for his temper to cool before he briefs you . |
| 23 | He 's been waiting for the past half-hour . ’ |
| 24 | His twice broken kneecap still bears the scars — for Lawrence today was the test he 's been waiting for . |
| 25 | He 's been waiting for you to come off , ai n't I Yun ? |