Example sentences of "[pron] had to wait for a [noun] " in BNC.

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1 To prepare this article I had to wait for an event on a day when the visibility was gin-clear to get good photographs from my open cockpit Jodel D9 , using a telephoto lens at various focal lengths to obtain the required framing .
2 Clare was fired for turning up late after she had to wait for a doctor because Josh had a temperature .
3 Heather Courtley , whose son was the patient who had to wait for an hour , said she was not reassured .
4 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 .
5 We had to wait for an hour for our connection to Frankfurt .
6 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 .
7 Turning to those who were referred by the GP to another agency , a major problem experienced by this group was the length of time they had to wait for an appointment ( see also Watson 1985 ) .
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