Example sentences of "[coord] [pron] have to wait " in BNC.
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| 1 | My family and I had to wait for three weeks in Bombay before getting a boat for England , but during that time I was able to do some useful PR work with newspapers and radio . |
| 2 | I went to the doctor , but he just sent a letter to the Detox Unit and I had to wait three months [ for the appointment ] . |
| 3 | We was there till six o'clock in the afternoon and it took us from the er ten o'clock in the morning , say about ten when we got there , it took us from ten till six to fire five rounds of ammunition because there was that many there and you had to wait your turn . |
| 4 | Now the first er process after that , it 's all sanded down , and then there 's a sort of whitening mixture , stooking mixture , is all rubbed into that and you 've to wait till it dries . |
| 5 | and you have to wait |
| 6 | So why did n't you tell them , like Lucy comes late and you have to wait for her and everything ? |
| 7 | So , no sooner did the record go into the charts and we were going ‘ yeah , this is it — hooray — we 're taking off ’ , they dropped the record and we had to wait for the guys to come back to earth . |
| 8 | But all the local ambulances were busy and we had to wait for one to come from Richmond , which is many miles away . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | I found it curious that when everyone had finished Robert still had a plateful of food before him and we had to wait as he ate it and Lili talked and smoked her endless cigarettes . |
| 11 | His one break from bop conventions lay in the pacing of each set , since he favoured fast tempi almost exclusively , and we had to wait for the penultimate tune of the night to hear a ballad played at real ballad speed . |
| 12 | Yeah we got there for ten o'clock and we had to wait till they 'd finished all the out-patients before they 'd let the in-patients . |
| 13 | ’ Even if a car is n't in stock and we have to wait for it to be built , we can generally hold the agreed price . ’ |
| 14 | But there is little inkling of how the mechanism will work , and we have to wait until December for the management executive and the Department of Education to come up with ideas . |
| 15 | But there was plenty of time , and they had to wait at the other end of the tunnel . |
| 16 | That is why I I I mentioned those mar , those remarks right at the beginning , God will never ever send another pentecost , the only people that God told to wait were those early disciples to wait in Jerusalem until the Holy Spirit came and they had to wait for ten days from the ascension of Jesus until the Holy Spirit came . |
| 17 | It seems that it is not clarification of definition , tell that to the woman who looked for two , thirteen years after a stroke husband and they had to wait for his death , that you did n't sell him a dread disease policy because there is not clarification of definition . |
| 18 | Manchester United at home to Bolton were held to a goal-less first half first forty five minutes , and they had to wait until the seventy seventh minute before taking the lead through Hughes , and United go through with a one nil win . |
| 19 | Now next year something else might happen and somebody may be forced to go to court , if they can not go to court they can not get justice and they have to wait to see what happens . |
| 20 | And then it came to him , and he had to wait , fidgeting his hands while the Rector talked on . |
| 21 | The debate dragged on in his absence and he had to wait nearly three hours for the result . |
| 22 | Cathy Carne and her assistant were both serving and he had to wait . |
| 23 | The true explanation is utterly different , and it had to wait for one of the most revolutionary thinkers of all time , Charles Darwin . |
| 24 | But I had to wait my turn and carry on learning . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ I 've got pretty good hearing but I had to wait almost a moment before I could imagine I could hear anything . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | And er Alan keeps saying , you can do it but you have to wait to the next programme coming through and I specifically asked for Liz to put it on . |
| 28 | Peter Jacobsen took great delight in tackling him , but we had to wait while it was going on . |
| 29 | Elizabeth I , whose delicate long fingers feature so prominently in her portraits , started a fashion for lily-white skin , but we had to wait until the 1880s for the advent of polished nails in Britain . |
| 30 | The shoot used to last five or six days in August but you did n't get paid when it was finished — do n't ask me why , but we had to wait until Christmas . |