Example sentences of "had to wait a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had to wait a quarter of an hour , but six or seven minutes after that he was climbing the weedy steps to the quay on the other side . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Gedanken had to wait a minute for her eyes to get used to the inky black darkness again . |
| 4 | Residents had to wait a year before they could put in claims and it 's only now that they 're getting their offers through , based on the district valuer 's assessment of the value of their homes . |
| 5 | And he only had to wait a couple of erm points left on his licence so if I 'd taken the dangerous thriving or something he could have lost his licence but erm that 's besides the point . |