Example sentences of "have to wait [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 61 | 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 . |
| 62 | 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 . |
| 63 | Had to wait for James , I had n't noticed he 'd gone past |
| 64 | More awkward still , since Laura was not on board , he was obliged to lock up before going to the office , and had to wait on board , with his brief-case and umbrella , determinedly not listening , while Nenna went down to the saloon . |
| 65 | Doctors told her she needed an emergency hysterectomy , but because of a bed shortage she had to wait in agony for three-and-a-half hours . |
| 66 | So I had to wait in suspense . |
| 67 | It was through their influence that Goodricke was appointed as minister-resident to Sweden in 1758 ; he had to wait in Copenhagen until 1764 before the Swedish government resumed diplomatic relations with Britain that had been severed at the outset of the Seven Years ' War . |
| 68 | Sales started to tumble just as dealings in the shares began , but Stock Exchange rules meant boss Tim Parker had to wait until September to warn the market . |
| 69 | 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 . |
| 70 | Haymo , although selected by the monks of Rochester as their next choice had to wait until August 1319 , before he was consecrated Bishop . |
| 71 | LAST YEAR Andy Nicol had to wait until August — five months after the event — to hold his 21st birthday party . |
| 72 | I 'd go crazy if I had to wait until supper . |
| 73 | Talking of Hampshire reminds us that the left-arm spinner Ian Turner had to wait till August before getting a Championship match . |
| 74 | I had to wait till dawn to see what I was doing , ’ said Peter , of Taunton , Somerset , who suffered minor injuries . |
| 75 | Most people are likely to judge the reforms on how long they have to wait for treatment — the issue behind the ‘ Jennifer 's ear ’ controversy during the election campaign . |
| 76 | Every time we go I have to wait for ages in the cold hospital wearing a scratchy towelling robe the colour of sick and drinking black coffee . |
| 77 | 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 . |
| 78 | Doctors have been working over weekends to reduce the time patients have to wait for operations . |
| 79 | Birth parents have to wait for adoptees to choose to contact them and may therefore experience feelings of desperation and anticipation around the time when the adoptee would be 18 years old . |
| 80 | 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 . |
| 81 | Have to wait till Wednesday . " |
| 82 | And that , that we only have to wait till Thursday |
| 83 | Children in Italy have to wait until January for their presents . |
| 84 | 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 . |
| 85 | So students will in any case have to wait until Tuesday . |
| 86 | In these brief forays of ours into the territory of Old Testament storytelling we do not , in fact , have to wait until Jonah to find the theology of Joshua 6 again under question . |