Example sentences of "would have to wait " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sadly , there was no Marmite and no honey , we were told , and we 'd have to wait at least 20 minutes . |
| 2 | Did n't want to talk to me , so I told her she 'd have to wait . ’ |
| 3 | Two hours he 'd have to wait . |
| 4 | He wondered about making himself a hot drink but he 'd have to wait too long to drink it . |
| 5 | ‘ When we asked her if she was going to marry Peter she just smiled and said we 'd have to wait and see . |
| 6 | The counter-girl told me I 'd have to wait for the manager . |
| 7 | In the morning when they wanted the money I 'd say ‘ I 've just got to phone home , ’ and get Mum to promise to pay , and they 'd have to wait till she turned up . |
| 8 | I remarked to my friend , ‘ You 'd have to wait for a long time to get a train from here , ’ he smiled and we both set off for the youth hostel down the road . |
| 9 | But the former was impossible with the twins in tow and the latter unthinkable given the length of time he 'd have to wait for one on a Sunday . |
| 10 | If they did n't feel like coming back you 'd have to wait till the next hour . |
| 11 | If Gharr was there for any reason to do with me , I 'd have to wait and find out . |
| 12 | ‘ When they told you you 'd have to wait … you stayed right there … you did n't leave and then go back later ? ’ |
| 13 | He 'd have to wait two or three hours while Customs ran it across the road to me so I could make a quick video dub for Hurley or his spook friends before they returned the original and let the guy on through to Nicosia . |
| 14 | Most modern chemists would probably say that we 'd have to wait a long time by the standards of a human lifetime , but perhaps not all that long by the standards of cosmological time . |
| 15 | But the point of our ‘ numbers of planets ’ argument is that , even if the chemist said that we 'd have to wait for a ‘ miracle ’ , have to wait a billion billion years — far longer than the universe has existed , we can still accept this verdict with equanimity . |
| 16 | ‘ Did n't you warn Jones that he 'd have to wait a while ? ’ |
| 17 | say that you 're not allowed to , to run those because they 'd be contrary to the directive , but er we 'd have to wait and see |
| 18 | But he 'd have to wait at least another 2 and a half hours — that 's how long Mae Luz 's flight from Manila was delayed . |
| 19 | We 'd have to wait for the next one then . |
| 20 | The Great Whirlo and his potential fan would have to wait — Colonel Feather was a determined man , and this was his moment . |
| 21 | Hungry and cold would have to wait until I could go back to the cafe , dirty was obviously going to be more of a problem . |
| 22 | Michael Meacher , the shadow Secretary of State for Employment , said that such definitions would have to wait until the party formed a government and the details were worked out between ministers and officials . |
| 23 | To find its most lasting realization , Charlie 's vision would have to wait for a bank clerk who did understand metempsychosis , and who had not only a commercial education gained in an underground room at Lloyds Bank , but also a knowledge of Greek . |
| 24 | They would have to wait until the property is sold before the super profits come in . ’ |
| 25 | But on coming ashore Lady Arran decided retirement would have to wait . |
| 26 | If I could n't find it , I would have to wait for morning and steer north by my watch and the sun . |
| 27 | His boots and rabbits would have to wait until tomorrow ; that was certain . |
| 28 | Last Friday the civil servant in charge of government policy on radioactive waste management reiterated Whitehall 's position that a solution to the disposal issue would have to wait for a future generation . |
| 29 | We would have to wait and see if another fit occurred . |
| 30 | She stood on the steps of the court , and told the crowd gathered there that the parents had been told they would have to wait to hear whether the Place of Safety orders had been confirmed , or whether their children would be returning home . |