Example sentences of "been waiting [adj] [noun] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's just that you have been waiting all afternoon for it to arrive and now have little choice but to try and bludgeon your way through the waves of cover tacklers . |
| 2 | We had been waiting all Genesis for words like those . |
| 3 | Then worries rush into her consciousness , as into his , like clamorous patients who have been waiting all night for the doctor 's surgery to open ; but she deals with them in a rational , orderly manner . |
| 4 | It was as though she had secretly been waiting all evening for this moment , for this invitation to walk along the beach with him . |
| 5 | At last she could admit honestly to herself that some part of her had been waiting all evening for this moment when her own self-imposed barriers would be swept away . |
| 6 | and they say I 've been waiting seventeen years for this pollack , or having your tooth out or having your tonsils extracted |
| 7 | He has been waiting two years for a donor and carries a bleeper everywhere — waiting for the call telling him one has been found at last . |