Example sentences of "[vb past] to wait for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She sat with her until the exhaustion of grief finally drove Ana to sleep and silence , then Maggie went to wait for Felipe . |
| 2 | Daniel , who spent £75 on new games and equipment , added : ‘ We had to wait for ages but it was worth it . ’ |
| 3 | I followed mum and joined a long queue , there we had to wait for ages while other people on our flight handed in their tickets . |
| 4 | As we were leaving the theatre , we had to wait for Dad to shake hands in the foyer with some dignitaries . |
| 5 | Well a very close fought encounter at the stadium ; we had to wait for quarter of an hour for the first actual goal chance when Dave Bristow hit the ball from twenty five yards , which just cleared the bar . |
| 6 | ‘ I offered to bring her back again but she said she had to wait for Angharad . ’ |
| 7 | Similar decisions were reached in the cases involving hole in the heart babies who had to wait for treatment because of a shortage of trained specialist nursing staff . |
| 8 | Some people had to wait for parents to pick them up . |
| 9 | He struggled towards an understanding of continuity , though the work had to wait for Newton and Gottfried Leibnitz to produce an infinitesimal calculus to master this difficulty . |
| 10 | DR 's GEM was happily running on Intel 8088-powered XT machines whilst Bill Gates had to wait for Tandy 's Intel 80186 processor powered PC , just to make version 1.0 of Windows run efficiently . |
| 11 | ‘ Sorry to be so long — I had to wait for Tom to finish a phone call . ’ |
| 12 | However , Coun. Mrs Town said the time restrictions would seriously hamper disabled people who often had to wait for lifts into town . |
| 13 | IF DODGE City and Tombstone had to wait for movie star-type heroes to save them from the outlaws who were over-running the communities , would they stand by the lawmen if it looked like the bad guys were n't going to stay beat ? |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Soviet policy with regard to Eastern Europe was sloganised as ‘ development in groups ’ , as though we had to wait for Mongolia to catch up before we could be allowed to develop . |
| 16 | Had to wait for James , I had n't noticed he 'd gone past |