Example sentences of "had been waiting [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the day on which the Secretary of State gave a pledge to his party conference that everyone would have equal access to free health care , I was contacted by a constituent , Mr. Ronnie Watson , who had been waiting since September 1990 for an appointment with a consultant to discuss a possible hip operation and had just been told that he would have to wait until some unspecified date in 1992 . |
| 2 | All afternoon she had been waiting for evidence of the racing rumour-machine at work . |
| 3 | Phoebe woke up quickly , as though she had been waiting for Maggie 's summons , but not quickly enough . |
| 4 | The government had already agreed to meeting Unita this week and the UN had been waiting for Unita to set the date , UN officials said . |
| 5 | Jessamy had been thinking about it while she had been waiting for Julius to return with the blankets , and she thought she knew the answer . |
| 6 | People had been waiting for years for freedom ‘ and they 've now had enough ’ . |
| 7 | It had been waiting for weeks . |
| 8 | She had been waiting for Silas to assert himself and knew that sooner or later an outburst of authority must come from him . |
| 9 | I found him in the Grange garden , where he had been waiting for news all night . |
| 10 | She had been waiting on Dreadnought to watch the water coming in through the main leak . |
| 11 | Everyone had been waiting on tenterhooks on the platform , as they had been technically ready for more than a day . |
| 12 | A Piper Chieftain , belonging to UNACO , had been waiting at Orly Airport to fly them on to Strasbourg . |
| 13 | A ship containing 800 tonnes of food , fuel and medicines sent by the ICRC had been waiting off Mogadishu 's docks , unable to unload , since early November . |