Example sentences of "[noun] had wait for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Electrical stimulation could produce dramatic effects , but the proper study of electro-physiology had to wait for some time until it was possible to record small electrical potentials . |
| 2 | He struggled towards an understanding of continuity , though the work had to wait for Newton and Gottfried Leibnitz to produce an infinitesimal calculus to master this difficulty . |
| 3 | Helen had waited for five minutes , not knowing at all why , then followed him into the bedroom . |
| 4 | Perhaps Madame had waited for just such a night . |
| 5 | As the sky slowly brightened and they waited , Fleury thought of how he and Harry had waited for the first attack of all at the beginning of June . |
| 6 | Even if other painters had to wait for their money , Zbo tried desperately hard to make sure that Modi did not go without . |
| 7 | Firefighters had to wait for the mains to be turned off before engineers could cap the broken pipe in Swindon . |
| 8 | And then , anyone who owed less than £200 had to wait for the start of the next law term in another four months if he wished to apply for the discharge which would come upon his delivering his whole property to the single creditor who had stayed with the process as long as that . |
| 9 | Some people had to wait for parents to pick them up . |
| 10 | Fellow passengers had to wait for another train to continue their journey because the original train 's safety mechanism had jammed . |
| 11 | DR 's GEM was happily running on Intel 8088-powered XT machines whilst Bill Gates had to wait for Tandy 's Intel 80186 processor powered PC , just to make version 1.0 of Windows run efficiently . |
| 12 | It was the opening that the High Elf had waited for . |
| 13 | IF DODGE City and Tombstone had to wait for movie star-type heroes to save them from the outlaws who were over-running the communities , would they stand by the lawmen if it looked like the bad guys were n't going to stay beat ? |
| 14 | The Man Jenny had waited for . |
| 15 | The trouble was that after they were born , children had to wait for six years before they could be sent to school and forgotten for most of the day . |
| 16 | Change had to wait for the coming of the postwar years . |
| 17 | Reluctantly they headed away into the darkness and made the rendezvous rather late , but luckily the patrol had waited for them . |
| 18 | They also pointed to an incident during which a patient had to wait for four hours for an anaesthetist . |
| 19 | Its close links with the English cathedrals had to wait for the Norman reorganization , which first made possible in England an absenteeism and pluralism on the German model . |
| 20 | Firemen had to wait for the mains to be turned off before engineers could cap the broken pipe . |