Example sentences of "[verb] [not/n't] have to wait " in BNC.

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1 O'Neill 's suspect views were known to many unionists and the conservatives did not have to wait for the fruits of O'Neillism , however timid they may have been .
2 She did not have to wait long for a train .
3 He had the good grace to apologise afterwards and I also expressed my gratitude that I did not have to wait an hour or so until the training was finished before I could obtain his team and get busy .
4 Yet , Empirical Socialism did not have to wait for Keynes to propound the idea of demand-led growth as the solution to the recurrent crises in Capitalism .
5 He did not have to wait very long .
6 Certainly he was not waiting to see Artai — the Khan of the Merkuts was so powerful that he did not have to wait for audience like other men .
7 They did not have to wait long before Shildon emerged and told them .
8 We went up on to the roof , and we did not have to wait long .
9 I did not have to wait long .
10 She did not have to wait very long to find out .
11 But British and French workers did not have to wait for an economic upturn .
12 The authorities do not have to wait for it to happen , however .
13 Managers who never leave do not have to wait for another manager to retire or die so that they can fill their shoes .
14 Under this system students are also able to graduate as soon as they have met the requirements of an award and do not have to wait until July each year .
15 The Government 's aim is to decide all cases within a matter of months so that all those affected do not have to wait an inordinate length of time to ascertain their legal status in the U K. It 's obvious to everyone not too blind to see that such changes are vital to the mounting pressures on the existing system
16 But Ramsden 's ( illustrated ) did n't have to wait for television to make its name .
17 We left a message and did n't have to wait too long .
18 Anyway we did n't have to wait , we did n't have to persuade , we had simply to stop conspiring in our oppression .
19 As some of the options ( transfers etc ) only come up when you land on the right square , I did n't have to wait eons for Phil to finish his turn .
20 Dirk Coetzee did n't have to wait long for a really big job .
21 They did n't have to wait long to find out where she was .
22 We did n't have to wait long .
23 I did n't have to wait long : another soldier passed and was asked to accompany me .
24 He did n't have to wait long .
25 Well I did n't have to wait too long for you today .
26 And they did n't have to wait long , did they ?
27 This was designed to be a very generous criterion , minimal examples of correct details could be ‘ We did n't have to wait at the lights ’ or ‘ There were several cars ahead of us ’ .
28 I kept one eagle eye out for wardens and policemen with nothing better to do than harass taxi-drivers , but I did n't have to wait long .
29 I left them to it but did n't have to wait long .
30 This time he did n't have to wait with trepidation for the entrance of Gesner .
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