Example sentences of "have to wait for [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Essentially , they are glorified leisure centres — Butlins for the Costa Brava generation , a way of feeling like you 're abroad without having to wait for three hours at Gatwick Airport . |
| 2 | They also pointed to an incident during which a patient had to wait for four hours for an anaesthetist . |
| 3 | We only had to wait for five minutes for the first boooooom … and a second … and a third . |
| 4 | That is why I I I mentioned those mar , those remarks right at the beginning , God will never ever send another pentecost , the only people that God told to wait were those early disciples to wait in Jerusalem until the Holy Spirit came and they had to wait for ten days from the ascension of Jesus until the Holy Spirit came . |
| 5 | We had to wait for some months in order to get a passage and finally set oft on my birthday in January . |
| 6 | So you had to wait for full details of John Major 's new cabinet earlier this year . |
| 7 | My family and I had to wait for three weeks in Bombay before getting a boat for England , but during that time I was able to do some useful PR work with newspapers and radio . |
| 8 | Thus for a proper appreciation of the distinction between " slow " and " fast " you have to wait for electromagnetic waves to be introduced , discussed , and digested . |