Example sentences of "[pers pn] had wait [art] [adj] 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 had waited a long time for this moment . |
5 | After all , she had waited a long time to belong , but she had never realised she could belong so completely . |
6 | We had to wait a long time because I had my mother to look after and she was rather difficult . ’ |
7 | 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 . |