Example sentences of "we have to wait [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Will he beef up the public consultation procedures which his Department are currently casting aside like autumn leaves shrivelling on the ground , or do we have to wait for a Labour Government in the full flush of a green spring and summer to bring sense back into our planning system ? |
| 2 | Will he now change his mind or shall we have to wait for the people to do that for him ? |
| 3 | Will we have to wait for a Labour Government before positive action is taken ? |
| 4 | Lakeside resident Denton Bell said : ‘ Will we have to wait for somebody to die or for a building to burn down before something is done ? ’ |
| 5 | Why do we have to wait until 1993 before the poll tax is abolished ? |
| 6 | Or , to put it another way , how long would we have to wait before random chemical events on the planet , random thermal jostling of atoms and molecules , resulted in a self-replicating molecule ? |
| 7 | ‘ This declaration is not a blind bit of good to the workers who have to take over the jobs of those who have emigrated , ’ and ‘ Why do we have to wait till the next central committee meeting ? ’ were other grumbles . |
| 8 | So , no sooner did the record go into the charts and we were going ‘ yeah , this is it — hooray — we 're taking off ’ , they dropped the record and we had to wait for the guys to come back to earth . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | We had to wait for an hour for our connection to Frankfurt . |
| 11 | But all the local ambulances were busy and we had to wait for one to come from Richmond , which is many miles away . |
| 12 | We had to wait for some months in order to get a passage and finally set oft on my birthday in January . |
| 13 | We had to wait for some days until a convoy of ships was ready . |
| 14 | Daniel , who spent £75 on new games and equipment , added : ‘ We had to wait for ages but it was worth it . ’ |
| 15 | Klaasen 's contention that ‘ the only integration that has gone on so far has been among the top officials ’ seemed to be borne out by the fact that we had to wait for the penultimate game of the tours to seen the first nonwhite player take the field . |
| 16 | We had to wait for all three of them to finish before getting it back . |
| 17 | As we were leaving the theatre , we had to wait for Dad to shake hands in the foyer with some dignitaries . |
| 18 | So we 'd fill them and we could n't see anyway , lookin We could n't look down and see , we had to wait for the foreman shouting all the instructions , move left , forward or up or down . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Well that was the , the erm union for us , erm I think erm one of the great assets of being in public transport was that we were in a local erm pension scheme , erm when , when we in the office started , we had to wait until we were eighteen and then we had to wait for a vacancy because there was a limited number of people that the Council were prepared to back by paying a similar amount . |
| 21 | We had to wait for the police and the doctor to certify what had happened . |
| 22 | His one break from bop conventions lay in the pacing of each set , since he favoured fast tempi almost exclusively , and we had to wait for the penultimate tune of the night to hear a ballad played at real ballad speed . |
| 23 | The Chinese do n't like their planes to fly unless the weather is absolutely O.K. So we had to wait for a few hours for the plane to arrive from Shanghai . |
| 24 | So we had to wait for the next bus , which was six o'clock . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | From there we went in a funny little train with open trucks which fascinated Tim , until we got to a railway junction where we had to wait on the station for some hours for another train to take us to Calcutta . |
| 27 | She unhooked her cloak collar as we had to wait at the outer door of Marcus whilst two porters wheeled out an empty accident trolley . |
| 28 | Oh , we had to wait at the border , we had in advance to get visas , and when we got there , things were very simple but nonetheless , we were very well received , and the person that I was staying with , lived in a flat , a very simple flat , but nonetheless , a very pleasant flat . |
| 29 | We had to wait before crossing the road . |
| 30 | To find out who was correct , we had to wait until the following morning and our debriefing with the major . |