Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] wait a long time " in BNC.

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1 I had to wait a long time for an answer , and just before the door opened I nearly came sufficiently to my senses to run away , but sanity came too late .
2 I had to wait a long time shut in .
3 And I was a bit late , so I had to wait a long time to get served . ’
4 She seemed to wait a long time before she heard footsteps within , and then a light sprang up beyond the frosted glass .
5 She had waited a long time for this moment .
6 After all , she had waited a long time to belong , but she had never realised she could belong so completely .
7 She explained that with some people one had to wait a long time before one saw what one wanted to see .
8 We had to wait a long time because I had my mother to look after and she was rather difficult . ’
9 But the poem of his that he most needed reassurance about was Homage to Sextus Propertius ( 1919 ) , and for that he had to wait a long time .
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