Example sentences of "we had to wait " in BNC.
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| 1 | To find out who was correct , we had to wait until the following morning and our debriefing with the major . |
| 2 | So , no sooner did the record go into the charts and we were going ‘ yeah , this is it — hooray — we 're taking off ’ , they dropped the record and we had to wait for the guys to come back to earth . |
| 3 | Soviet policy with regard to Eastern Europe was sloganised as ‘ development in groups ’ , as though we had to wait for Mongolia to catch up before we could be allowed to develop . |
| 4 | Peter Jacobsen took great delight in tackling him , but we had to wait while it was going on . |
| 5 | We had to wait for an hour for our connection to Frankfurt . |
| 6 | Elizabeth I , whose delicate long fingers feature so prominently in her portraits , started a fashion for lily-white skin , but we had to wait until the 1880s for the advent of polished nails in Britain . |
| 7 | For some reason which escapes me we had to take a taxi , and when we arrived at Helsinki airport we had to wait five hours for our flight . |
| 8 | But all the local ambulances were busy and we had to wait for one to come from Richmond , which is many miles away . |
| 9 | Perhaps it 's telling that a similar process of self-siphoning is also afflicting Hollywood , for no other song-writer is as steeped in cinema as Springsteen ( it is surprising that we had to wait until Indian Runner for a film to be made of one of his songs ) . |
| 10 | We had to wait for some months in order to get a passage and finally set oft on my birthday in January . |
| 11 | We had to wait for some days until a convoy of ships was ready . |
| 12 | From there we went in a funny little train with open trucks which fascinated Tim , until we got to a railway junction where we had to wait on the station for some hours for another train to take us to Calcutta . |
| 13 | Daniel , who spent £75 on new games and equipment , added : ‘ We had to wait for ages but it was worth it . ’ |
| 14 | 1976 , it may be remembered , was the year of the great drought , and we had to wait a frustrating three months until there was rain in sufficient quantity and enough water in the river to try it out . |
| 15 | Klaasen 's contention that ‘ the only integration that has gone on so far has been among the top officials ’ seemed to be borne out by the fact that we had to wait for the penultimate game of the tours to seen the first nonwhite player take the field . |
| 16 | She unhooked her cloak collar as we had to wait at the outer door of Marcus whilst two porters wheeled out an empty accident trolley . |
| 17 | We had to wait before crossing the road . |
| 18 | We had to wait for all three of them to finish before getting it back . |
| 19 | As we were leaving the theatre , we had to wait for Dad to shake hands in the foyer with some dignitaries . |
| 20 | We had to wait , sitting in silence over another meal . |
| 21 | So we 'd fill them and we could n't see anyway , lookin We could n't look down and see , we had to wait for the foreman shouting all the instructions , move left , forward or up or down . |
| 22 | And then we had to wait while they poured them in the moulds , but if the moulds failed , and they were rather big , they was full of air-holes and they used to turn it all into a fine just l l pebbles of molten metal , straight back up at you , and you could n't move cos if you moved your crane then somebody would have been killed with out the ladles . |
| 23 | I found it curious that when everyone had finished Robert still had a plateful of food before him and we had to wait as he ate it and Lili talked and smoked her endless cigarettes . |
| 24 | ‘ If we had to wait three months for this money , then fill in a new form to open a different account , just like a new investor in fact , it would not be a bad idea to see if any other society was offering a better rate than the 8.85 per cent offered by ‘ Prime Gold ’ . |
| 25 | The shoot used to last five or six days in August but you did n't get paid when it was finished — do n't ask me why , but we had to wait until Christmas . |
| 26 | When this happened we had to wait until it was repaired , and if it proved impossible we were entitled to see the next film the following Sunday , for nothing . |
| 27 | We had to wait awhile ; the troops there were drilling in preparation for being shipped to some Godforsaken town in the Low Countries to wage one of Fat Henry 's futile , forgotten wars . |
| 28 | I followed mum and joined a long queue , there we had to wait for ages while other people on our flight handed in their tickets . |
| 29 | Well that was the , the erm union for us , erm I think erm one of the great assets of being in public transport was that we were in a local erm pension scheme , erm when , when we in the office started , we had to wait until we were eighteen and then we had to wait for a vacancy because there was a limited number of people that the Council were prepared to back by paying a similar amount . |
| 30 | Well that was the , the erm union for us , erm I think erm one of the great assets of being in public transport was that we were in a local erm pension scheme , erm when , when we in the office started , we had to wait until we were eighteen and then we had to wait for a vacancy because there was a limited number of people that the Council were prepared to back by paying a similar amount . |