Example sentences of "[been] wait for " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | People had been waiting for years for freedom ‘ and they 've now had enough ’ . |
| 2 | An hour later the village bobby was let into the house by Mr Lawson , and shortly afterwards they emerged together for the Chancellor to give the message the world 's money markets had been waiting for . |
| 3 | One day in the shop she 'd been waiting for Malcolm 's girlfriend and partner , Vivienne Westwood — they 'd been planning to go somewhere but Vivienne had n't turned up , she 'd phoned to tell this American girl that . |
| 4 | Phoebe woke up quickly , as though she had been waiting for Maggie 's summons , but not quickly enough . |
| 5 | We 've been waiting for the knight in shining armour and then there is n't one . |
| 6 | McNeill said : ‘ I have been waiting for two days for this supposed written offer . |
| 7 | Industrial Light and Magic 's construction of a realistic creature made of water in The Abyss is the kind of job the ‘ synthetic reality ’ wing of the computer animation business has been waiting for . |
| 8 | The banks have been hostile to the plans from the beginning but had been waiting for the right moment to withdraw on commercial rather than political grounds . |
| 9 | Jenny Pitman is another who has been waiting for the rain before releasing a very strong team . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Marie had been waiting for him out in the car-park . |
| 12 | 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 . ’ |
| 13 | Truth to tell , we have been waiting for it since Genesis 12 . |
| 14 | The kennel maid remarked , ‘ There 's something queer about that animal , she has been waiting for you since early this morning . |
| 15 | ‘ I have been waiting for this , you know . |
| 16 | The Blackrag Madonna , it appears , has been waiting for him . |
| 17 | Gentlemen ushers in knee-length black tunics fuss about , directing last-minute guests to their seats , although most have been waiting for the best part of an hour , making stilted smalltalk to conceal their pride . |
| 18 | In this Karajan proved the catalyst everyone had been waiting for . |
| 19 | The man gave a grunt , which was the permission we had been waiting for , and I ran all the way back to my flat to change and conduct the concert . |
| 20 | They 'd been waiting for me , it seemed , in a mutual absence of civility . |
| 21 | Mrs Shirley Hayden , headteacher of Our Lady 's school in nearby Crowthorne , Berks , said : ‘ Oliver had been waiting for his mother to pick him up as usual at 3.15pm . |
| 22 | Perhaps Mr Paxman would at last achieve what we have always been waiting for him to do in one of his interviews : either fall fast asleep or choke to death on one of his own jokes . |
| 23 | I 'd been waiting for some opportunity to show off , to draw attention to myself . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | This was the tonic which the nuclear industry had been waiting for — a government which was both strongly sympathetic to its point of view , and prepared to make firm decisions . |
| 26 | ‘ We have come to liberate their country ; they have been waiting for us . ’ |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | ‘ You must be the one , ’ said the young woman , ‘ You must be the one I have been waiting for , who must release me from enchantment . |
| 29 | I have been waiting for a lift for four hours . |
| 30 | They have been waiting for these choice morsels — dessert . |