Example sentences of "[modal v] have [verb] a while " in BNC.
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| 1 | playing with it and stuff like , I think I should have gone a while ago , actually , |
| 2 | It must have taken a while from Taunton , Charles thought , as Frances drove them in the yellow Renault 5 along the route Lesley-Jane had described . |
| 3 | ‘ I think you 'll have to wait a while before you get another chance to be captain . ’ |
| 4 | 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 ! |
| 5 | ‘ Did n't you warn Jones that he 'd have to wait a while ? ’ |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . ’ |
| 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 | 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 . ’ |
| 10 | But the next episode of this little soap opera will have to wait a while . |
| 11 | FILM star Jenny Seagrove will have to wait a while yet for her Grand Opera House debut . |