Example sentences of "[adv] have to wait for " in BNC.

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1 We only had to wait for five minutes for the first boooooom … and a second … and a third .
2 But until manufacturers and club professionals come to realise that a significant number play the game left-handed , the world of golf will just have to wait for its Gower , Seles , McEnroe and White .
3 I shall just have to wait for the next Guinness Book of Records for the answer .
4 ‘ I 'll just have to wait for Dad then , wo n't I ? ’
5 Meanwhile , Pogo would just have to wait for an answer .
6 That tooth will just have to wait for California , along with everything else .
7 They 'll just have to wait for you .
8 Forbes thus had to wait for fifteen years or so before the coveted post came up ; during this time Jameson sometimes teetered but always recovered , and his courses and museum fell behind the times .
9 They no longer had to wait for the elusive Jennie to finish making a steak and kidney pudding before sanctioning an important business decision , but they had taken over in lean times and Doris began to find the strain intolerable .
10 I just have to wait for his letter , but I think the sensible thing to do would be to talk to you about what he 's putting you on because a lot of these drugs are not without potential side effects .
11 going down the right ? , five years old down the river was the first time ever but just have to wait for him !
12 I look at r.s.s. every Saturday from about noon local time ( 5.00 pm Leeds time ) in the hope of getting the results asap and I normally have to wait for ages until info arrives .
13 They usually had to wait for their father to come home to decipher Davide 's news aloud to them . )
14 To get anywhere near an understanding of News Corporation 's accounts , you usually have to wait for the figures it is obliged to file with America 's Securities and Exchange Commission .
15 Service trades offer the opportunity to create jobs quicker because they fulfil a requirement that already exists , rather than attempting to create a market for a new product and often having to wait for factories to be built and machinery installed .
16 However , Coun. Mrs Town said the time restrictions would seriously hamper disabled people who often had to wait for lifts into town .
17 I think , I think we have to wait for the letter , I suspect you 'll probably find both those changed to some extent after that so er I think we really have to wait for that .
18 East Germans now have to wait for weeks or even months for replies to their applications for visas to Hungary , through which more than 31,000 have escaped since August .
19 ‘ We now have to wait for their report . ’
20 ‘ We now have to wait for their report . ’
21 We might well have to wait for six months before we found a prahu which was heading in the right direction .
22 ‘ Now that I know your ghost I do n't even have to wait for you to come home from the sea . ’
23 I was a bit annoyed actually cos I even had to wait for him
24 They were meant to coincide so that travellers would have a smooth connection , but they rarely did , and the tea-houses and cheap hotels of Half a were swollen with travellers who invariably had to wait for days .
25 The Lancashire skipper then had to wait for a tense two minute trial by television to decide whether he could continue his burgeoning innings .
26 The Romans did no have to wait for the Greeks to discover that they were mortals .
27 In these cases I either have to wait for a passing walker and ask for assistance , try to reverse my direction or take the plunge and risk damage to chair and body .
28 ( Of course , for my friends to stand a chance of receiving any correspondence from me means that I either have to wait for the guilt level to rise sufficiently ( which is a slow process ) , or to unearth other things to put on my list like ‘ Install central heating ’ and ‘ Decorate bathroom ’ . )
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