Example sentences of "[pers pn] had to wait a " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had to wait a long time for an answer , and just before the door opened I nearly came sufficiently to my senses to run away , but sanity came too late . |
| 2 | I had to wait a long time shut in . |
| 3 | And I was a bit late , so I had to wait a long time to get served . ’ |
| 4 | Yeah oh yeah I did n't work anywhere else in Willenhall at all , and erm but we 'd got to be in for seven o'clock and if erm you were n't in for seven o'clock and sometimes I used to hear the bell began ringing when I got to go around the corner and get into the , but you had to wait a quarter of an hour before they would let you in and that was stopped off your money and my wage was eight and fourpence a week . |
| 5 | 1976 , it may be remembered , was the year of the great drought , and we had to wait a frustrating three months until there was rain in sufficient quantity and enough water in the river to try it out . |
| 6 | We had to wait a long time because I had my mother to look after and she was rather difficult . ’ |
| 7 | There was no proper funeral , as there had been no proper wedding ceremony ; they simply hauled the waterlogged body onto a bonfire of driftwood , and even though the sea wind at dawn had made the fire hot enough to break the stones of the beach , it was six hours before the body was gone , and then they had to wait a whole day before they could rake the ashes for his bones and send them to her . |
| 8 | But the poem of his that he most needed reassurance about was Homage to Sextus Propertius ( 1919 ) , and for that he had to wait a long time . |
| 9 | He had to wait a quarter of an hour , but six or seven minutes after that he was climbing the weedy steps to the quay on the other side . |
| 10 | Then he had to wait an hour for a taxi , but made it just in time to introduce Phil Collins . |