Example sentences of "but [pers pn] have to wait " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I had to wait my turn and carry on learning . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ I 've got pretty good hearing but I had to wait almost a moment before I could imagine I could hear anything . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Peter Jacobsen took great delight in tackling him , but we had to wait while it was going on . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | But they had to wait for a host of their rivals to commit pop suicide before they could begin the job of moulding this new discovery . |
| 9 | Goals in the first five minutes by Dennis Greene and Keith Scott set the Buckinghamshire side on the path to victory , but they had to wait until the 68th minute before Simon Stapleton settled the issue . |
| 10 | The children have to learn footwork , shadow boxing , and sparring and are encouraged to thump every ounce of their energy into punch bags but they have to wait until they are 11-years-old before they are allowed a real fight . |
| 11 | She stopped singing when he knocked on the door , but he had to wait and knock a second time before she invited him in . |
| 12 | His first Grand Prix was the 1951 Swiss when he was in a British HWM but he had to wait four years for his first success . |
| 13 | But he has to wait 12 months to join an NHS waiting list and two more years before he can have the surgery . |
| 14 | Sokolov 's idea was good , but it had to wait more than 20 years before the technology to implement it was invented . |