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

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1 Apparently , if I had waited a bit longer prices would have been much higher .
2 I have to wait a while before I get a second chub , but it is worth it for this one weighs 4lb 10oz and fights like a demon .
3 By the time the first bell rings , I have waited an hour .
4 FRANCIS AMPOFO , who has waited a year to reclaim the British flyweight title , tonight challenges Scotland 's James Drummond in London .
5 These results caused Jonah Barrington , the former world No. 1 who has waited an age for signs of Englishmen who might become world beaters in the way that he did , to make an interesting boast .
6 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 .
7 As my hon. Friend rightly pointed out , no patient in his area waits for more than two years and there has been a dramatic fall in the number of those who have to wait a year .
8 She added : ‘ Even if you have to wait a year , it 's a long time if you 're worried about it . ’
9 You have to wait a minute !
10 Could n't they have waited a bit longer after the expense of Christmas ?
11 you see I moved a bit more now but and I I 've still got good hearing er apart from this ear here , this ear , I ca n't hear so well , quite so well , this side , you see so I always have to say excuse me while I , hang on while I turn off the television , you see , and then they have to wait a minute till I turn it off and then what I do is because I have this phone extension put in
12 Instead he has to wait a week for next Saturday 's Victoria Ground clash with Swansea .
13 She had guessed by that time that , since he had n't yet stated why he 'd waited an hour to see her , he was saving what he 'd come to tell her until they were inside her flat .
14 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 .
15 Then he had to wait an hour for a taxi , but made it just in time to introduce Phil Collins .
16 Now he wished he had waited a year and a half and done the same thing here .
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