Example sentences of "had to wait until [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ Unfortunately she had to wait until a bed was available on the ward , but she was given a bed in casualty .
2 To begin with , the vets had to wait until a horse had broken down , and then sift through their collection of its graphs to see if and when they could first detect a change .
3 Hounslow had to wait until the second-half before England 's Martyn Grimley scored their first goal in a 3-0 win over Lyons , the Poundstretcher Second Division side .
4 Unable to turn , Chant had to wait until the man walked past his supine body to get a sight of him .
5 He had to wait until the coronation of Richard II before receiving an earldom , and his endowment with part of the Bohun inheritance was scarcely sufficient for one of his rank .
6 The only parts of the Home Support Project which were not clearly understood at first were ( a ) its method of obtaining clients ( it was sometimes thought that any dementia sufferer in the borough could be referred directly to the development officer ) , and ( b ) the fact that the development officers could not step in immediately the psychogeriatrician referred a client to the project , but had to wait until the research assessment had been carried out ( which would confirm the client 's eligibility for the project service ) .
7 I had to wait until the female was bulging-ripe , so within a few days she was brooding .
8 The Labour Party published the result of its own enquiries in 1936 and began a campaign for more effective measures , but the compulsory control of industrial location had to wait until the war and the post-war Labour government .
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