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

No	Sentence
1	He had had to wait four hours in the out-patients department , he said .
2	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 .
3	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 .
4	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 .
5	The carburettor had clogged up a second time in the storm and they had had to wait until it was over .
6	He had had to wait : he 'd run out of girder .
7	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 .
8	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 .
9	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 .
10	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 .