Example sentences of "have have to wait " in BNC.

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1 As Richards pointed out , the fact that the history of sexuality has had to wait so long to be written shows the strength of the taboos we have inherited .
2 She is a bit upset that she has had to wait almost a year before receiving any income .
3 Platt has had to wait in the wings because he is one of four foreign players fighting for the permitted three places .
4 The most highly regarded Australian umpire , Tony Crafter , has had to wait until the final Test of the series for his first match this summer .
5 he , too , has had to wait , partly because of Chris Smith 's consistency .
6 Darlington council has had to wait while negotiations have been completed with British Rail over the site ownership .
7 She 'd had to wait the best part of a month at Holmsly Manor , and then everything had happened at once .
8 These machines are so rare that one like Ingrid 's , new , could cost £80,000 , and she might have had to wait four years for delivery .
9 How long would America have had to wait for the Community to pull all its members behind a common policy ?
10 Certainly those who were in the square in 1387 hoping to see the completion of the Duomo would have had to wait a long time , far longer than the span of a human life .
11 The only difference then would have been that he would have had to sign , and then we would have had to wait two more weeks ; and I 'll tell you , it 's interesting , with the bill the way it 's written , to put that on the Carrington case would have meant his being alive and suffering two more weeks and honestly , I would have had to do something like that in two weeks , probably because we 'd have to work hard on him .
12 ABBA MAY HAVE HAD TO WAIT YEARS , but the Right Said Fred tribute industry is starting up early .
13 It remains a mystery to me why we should have had to wait as long as this for a recital disc , and why it should not have appeared on one of the major companies ' labels ( all credit to Delos ) .
14 At the beginning of the 1980 's a typeface would have cost around $4,500 and you would probably have had to wait a couple of weeks while it was digitised from some master copy .
15 They 'd have had to wait until she was in Spain before showing their hand .
16 It is ironical that the Court composers should have had to wait for the establishment of the Commonwealth before their songs were published .
17 ‘ Then I should have had to wait until you came back . ’
18 Rosenthal , who had only been on the field 15 minutes , made Barlow pay in full for his wastefulness yet Liverpool should not have had to wait so long to get their noses in front .
19 In any case she would have had to wait , probably for many years …
20 He had had to wait four hours in the out-patients department , he said .
21 But the Liberal Democrats protested that their front bench spokesman had had to wait nearly five hours to be called by the Speaker instead of being called at the start of the debate like the Government and Opposition .
22 He reported that he had had to wait , hidden in the Murdostoun woodland , whilst Balliol 's army marched southwards across his front , hence the delay .
23 I had had to wait seven years for Evans 's pardon and another seven years for Meehan 's , and , knowing the reluctance of the Home Office even to consider whether a mistake has been made , far less admit it , I had little hopes of any quick remedial action .
24 The carburettor had clogged up a second time in the storm and they had had to wait until it was over .
25 He had had to wait : he 'd run out of girder .
26 Daalny had acted , after all ; she must have taken the second key during Vespers , from the nail where at noon she had watched the porter hang the first one , but she had had to wait for near-darkness before using it .
27 Though Louis had had plenty of time to gain experience of ruling and to form a court of his own in the subkingdom of Aquitaine ( he had been king there since the age of three ) , he had had to wait a long time for his father 's inheritance .
28 Patients sought a declaration that the Secretary of State and health authorities were in breach of duty as they had had to wait an unreasonable time , because of a decision not to build a new block for a hospital on grounds of cost .
29 They would have been less well advised to move from temporary obligation to redemption if they had had to wait for the money which the peasants owed them , but the government realized that peasants were in no position to redeem their obligations overnight and advanced most of the money to which nobles were entitled in the form of interest-bearing bonds .
30 ‘ We 've had to wait for today before we could fix anything . ’
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