Example sentences of "have to wait a [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Look , you 'll have to wait a minute while I get some gloves .
2 You want biscuits , well we 've got some biscuits , but you 'll just have to wait a minute , I ca n't unpack everything now , alright , right let's see if we can find the car Get you two in the car first I think , right then , oh , what a heavy trolley full of food Oh dear , dear , dear , will you please put your feet down Charlotte , stop me being kicked .
3 two two erm thingies two Jaffa Cakes two ba box of Jaffa Cakes and Mini Cheddars then I 'll have to wait a minute please have to wait again , and then a Coke er erm er er er erm doo doo .
4 to pick him he 's , he went out , he said I said to them , you 'll have to wait a minute my mother ai n't been very well , and I was ironing his shirt , he wo n't nothing to do
5 for ya , well we could , you 'll have to wait a minute now
6 Positive thinking will have to wait a while , but it augurs well for one of the young ringsiders who turned up in his smartest suit and said : ‘ What a disgusting fight ; I wish I 'd worn my tracksuit . ’
7 Although the plant will have the capability to make it , low-calorie frozen yogurt — that most decadent of Western desserts — may have to wait a while .
8 If indeed , as Le Figaro magazine has said , AIDS is a ‘ world war ’ , the definitive account of the war will have to wait a while .
9 ‘ I think you 'll have to wait a while before you get another chance to be captain . ’
10 It is left to Minerva to give a more balanced view ; reporting on a large trial of the same drug she notes ‘ men hoping for a drug treatment for benign prostatic hypertrophy will have to wait a while longer … small improvements in a urinary flow rate and a small reduction in the size of the gland have to be balanced against negative effect on both libido and potency . ’
11 ‘ Did n't you warn Jones that he 'd have to wait a while ? ’
12 But the next episode of this little soap opera will have to wait a while .
13 FILM star Jenny Seagrove will have to wait a while yet for her Grand Opera House debut .
14 they want somebody to go down so we could have but a bit but , mum cos he said well you 'll have to wait a while !
15 CHRIS Patten may have to wait a year or two before he returns to the Commons .
16 Usually in the Labour party any other organization you 're gon na have to wait a year but the women did n't .
17 So he might get his wall built but he might have to wait a year before he starts it .
18 We had an officer here wanting you to make a statement , but he 'll have to wait a couple of days .
19 Do n't think to yourself that you will have to wait a week for that garter stitch sweater — that 's the negative approach .
20 I leave at 7.30am and by 8am have checked Skipper over and given him a small handful of feed in his manger ( which seems to keep him happy when other horses are fed and means I do n't have to wait an hour for him to digest a full feed ) .
21 He had the good grace to apologise afterwards and I also expressed my gratitude that I did not have to wait an hour or so until the training was finished before I could obtain his team and get busy .
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