Example sentences of "[adv] have to wait [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | EVER bought a sofa or a bed and been told you 'll only have to wait two or three weeks for delivery , and ten weeks later you 're still waiting … ? |
| 2 | The rescue service , which describes its staff as the ‘ new knights of the road , ’ boasts women alone should only have to wait 20 minutes . |
| 3 | He left her on the hard shoulder , near Epping , Essex , saying she would only have to wait 15 minutes . |
| 4 | He only had to wait 6–8 weeks . |
| 5 | By the same token , if it is good you only have to wait five minutes and it will get worse . |
| 6 | The Defence budget would stand buying another catapult tomorrow ; my crossbow would just have to wait another week or so . |
| 7 | You just had to wait longer for it to happen . |
| 8 | I normally work on a 33MHz 486 , and do n't ever have to wait much for anything to happen . |
| 9 | But erm but he still had to wait that 's what 's crap . |
| 10 | In hospitals without a psychiatric unit , patients usually had to wait several days before being seen by the psychiatrist , occupying medical beds and often antagonizing the medical staff by their presence . |
| 11 | Q : We may be improving customer service for our end users by faster delivery of ware , but what about the employee shop — we still have to wait 3–4 months sometimes for ware . |
| 12 | and we still have to wait half an hour ! |
| 13 | BAD NEWS for anyone wanting to move : you will probably have to wait two years for a substantial recovery in the housing market . |
| 14 | Others who may well have had reservations about him ( though we shall probably have to wait some time before their reflections can be made available to us ) were the oil-company spokesmen to whom he advanced new facts of life during the earnestly disputed discussions between OPEC and the major companies in Tehran in December 1973 . |
| 15 | There are suggestions that dementing patients may get " second class treatment in this type of ward , eg they often have to wait longer for long term placement than the non-demented . |
| 16 | And that 's third party carriage forward which is even , and Peter 's even happier because he does n't even have to wait two days now , he gets his delivery next day . |
| 17 | He 'll then have to wait another 4 weeks before he 's allowed to apply for his passport to be returned . |
| 18 | Handsome women are , of course , soon free to depart , but it happens that the uncomely sometimes have to wait several years … |
| 19 | The obvious advantage is that they provide sack-loads of fun and laughter , and the disadvantage is that you sometimes have to wait three hours for them to find their boots in the morning and finish flossing their teeth . |