Example sentences of "been waiting for [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ I 've been waiting for two hours . ’
2 McNeill said : ‘ I have been waiting for two days for this supposed written offer .
3 Like here in the north of Australia , I 've been waiting for two days for the light I need for a shot of some valleys .
4 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 .
5 I went there and found that people who had been waiting for four hours or more had still not received satisfaction .
6 I 've been waiting for forty years for it
7 Dowd had been waiting for this man , Matthias McGann , to say his piece .
8 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 …
9 I 've been waiting for this day all week .
10 It was as if Chambers bad been waiting for this admission .
11 I just said , goodness , I said we 've been waiting for this parcel since before Christmas and he says oh have you duck .
12 I 've been waiting for this chance since the days of the Witch of Endor .
13 How long have you been waiting for this car , a while have n't you Spen ?
14 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 .
15 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 . ’
16 It was as if she had been waiting for this moment for four years or more .
17 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 .
18 I 've been waiting for this moment all week .
19 Alec d'Urberville , who had been waiting for this moment , appeared at her side .
20 They had been waiting for high water so that they could sail alongside in a civilised manner .
21 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 . ’
22 I 'd been waiting for some opportunity to show off , to draw attention to myself .
23 She must have been waiting for some time .
24 He looked as if he had been waiting for some time .
25 I have been waiting for some time for hon. Members to refer to my apparel and I am duly flattered .
26 One is , none of the departments are resourced to give this a lot of attention , and secondly we have been waiting for further guidance from the Government on the outcome , particularly from local government , in respect of agenda twenty-one .
27 We had been waiting for three days behind Serbian lines .
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