Example sentences of "had wait [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As we were leaving the theatre , we had to wait for Dad to shake hands in the foyer with some dignitaries . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 ? |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | So I had to wait in suspense . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | I 'd go crazy if I had to wait until supper . |
| 10 | I had to wait till dawn to see what I was doing , ’ said Peter , of Taunton , Somerset , who suffered minor injuries . |
| 11 | In the small cells the insane had waited on stone beds for the divinely inspired dreams which they believed would offer prescriptions for their cure . |
| 12 | Cold with fear , she had waited for take-off , willing it not to happen , knowing it would . |
| 13 | After the chill of excitement , the ungovernable strangeness of the moment , they had waited for retribution , certain it would come . |