Example sentences of "they have wait " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 'd forgotten to shut up his dogs ; they 'd waited patiently outside the front door . |
| 2 | The warning her anxious mother had impressed on her as they 'd waited for Folly 's plane at Athens airport had obviously been quite correct . |
| 3 | It was the moment they 'd waited years for . |
| 4 | They 'd waited hours to get a glimpse of a legend … |
| 5 | Will they have to wait until the starship completes its ten-year journey ? |
| 6 | should they have to wait because but the , I , these people they are , they 've opted out of society , they want nothing to do |
| 7 | Could n't they have waited just another couple of weeks until he had officially retired at the end of the month ? |
| 8 | The Middle East is still suffering from the consequences of Jewish beastliness ( why could n't they have waited to be attacked first , like gents ? ) , including what someone euphemistically described as the ‘ re-unification ’ of Jerusalem . |
| 9 | Could n't they have waited a bit longer after the expense of Christmas ? |
| 10 | ‘ They 've waited a long time . |
| 11 | The saying goes that everything comes to he who waits well they 've waited longer than most ’ |
| 12 | See what they 've done they 've waited for December have n't they ? |
| 13 | It was sad to think that they had waited so long in England for this invasion of their homeland and after a few hours ashore so many of them had been killed or wounded , the dead now lying in a temporary grave in the corner of a Normandy orchard . |
| 14 | The women complained that the officer could only have been on the housing list for a few weeks , while they had waited for periods of between eighteen months and four years . |
| 15 | Ranulf believed the French were responsible ; Corbett at first agreed , but then queried why they had waited so long and privately concluded that the attackers were from Lord Bruce 's retinue . |
| 16 | In the past they had waited until after the school screening tests at 7-plus but felt that this was leaving it too late . |
| 17 | They had once been commuters themselves but they had waited so long for trains they had taken to living permanently in the tunnels , skulking in the darkness by day and emerging late at night to devour unwary travellers . |
| 18 | But I did it through the love , fo , that I had for the couple , and that because they had waited sixteen year before they eventually found out they could n't have children ! |
| 19 | After the chill of excitement , the ungovernable strangeness of the moment , they had waited for retribution , certain it would come . |
| 20 | They had waited for the Darkfall to blow itself out , which it did in spectacular fashion . |
| 21 | They had waited for so long that some of them had forgotten what they were waiting for . |
| 22 | They had waited . |
| 23 | They had waited long and patiently for this third call . |
| 24 | But they had to wait for a host of their rivals to commit pop suicide before they could begin the job of moulding this new discovery . |
| 25 | Goals in the first five minutes by Dennis Greene and Keith Scott set the Buckinghamshire side on the path to victory , but they had to wait until the 68th minute before Simon Stapleton settled the issue . |
| 26 | John Cheese , director of Barclays personal sector marketing , said : ‘ We found 36 p.c. of customers interviewed said they had to wait between five and 10 minutes to be served . |
| 27 | There was no proper funeral , as there had been no proper wedding ceremony ; they simply hauled the waterlogged body onto a bonfire of driftwood , and even though the sea wind at dawn had made the fire hot enough to break the stones of the beach , it was six hours before the body was gone , and then they had to wait a whole day before they could rake the ashes for his bones and send them to her . |
| 28 | The two groups returned safely to Jalo , where they had to wait some time for news of Jock Lewes and Bill Fraser . |
| 29 | But now they had to wait until , as the advertising put it , ‘ The Bay Calls the Day ’ . |
| 30 | There they had to wait , often for hours at a stretch . |