Example sentences of "[pers pn] had wait [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had to wait at most a couple of minutes before Dennis opened the back door , walked across to the garage , unlocked it , swung the door up and stepped inside . |
| 2 | My family and I had to wait for three weeks in Bombay before getting a boat for England , but during that time I was able to do some useful PR work with newspapers and radio . |
| 3 | I had to wait for another performance to see . ’ |
| 4 | So , it 's , alright it 's not a major problem , but that 's the only difficulty with it is it 's not , it 's good having the bus service where you do n't have to pay , right , if you do n't , like I did n't realize the bus went at five past one , and I was all ready to go , and er , it was ten past one , and I thought , oh no , so I had to wait till three o'clock . |
| 5 | Needing the number of a firm in Guildford ( Candy Domestic Equipment ) I had waited for five minutes for the inquiry people to answer , been cut short when I attempted to give the address and then handed out two minutes of silence . |
| 6 | The director of studies , an obnoxious little shit who knew exactly where we both stood , received me in audience after I had waited for three-quarters of an hour . |
| 7 | All through tea I had waited for some indication on his part that he knew I had seen the girl — as he must have known , for it was obvious that the nocturnal concert had been given to announce her presence . |
| 8 | But after I had waited in vain for six months , I lost hope , and felt low indeed . |
| 9 | As it happened , this queen mother was the most remarkable and able of them all , and it is therefore something of an irony that she had to wait for twelve years , until 1554 , and stage a successful coup , before obtaining the place which earlier queen mothers had immediately enjoyed . |
| 10 | After the concert she had to wait for four minutes before McCartney could rejoin her … while he accepted a standing ovation . |
| 11 | She had to wait for some time before the door was opened , and she hoped very much that it would be opened by Clelia , but it was not ; it was opened by a thin , brown , balding , youngish looking man . |
| 12 | Because of the extensions of the life of that Parliament as a consequence of the war , she had to wait until 1945 to fight an election , which she won with a majority of 665 . |
| 13 | This she had waited for all her life . |
| 14 | All the day before , she had waited for half an hour to go off walking by herself and it had never come . |
| 15 | So you had to wait for full details of John Major 's new cabinet earlier this year . |
| 16 | We had to wait for all three of them to finish before getting it back . |
| 17 | We had to wait for some months in order to get a passage and finally set oft on my birthday in January . |
| 18 | We had to wait for some days until a convoy of ships was ready . |
| 19 | That is why I I I mentioned those mar , those remarks right at the beginning , God will never ever send another pentecost , the only people that God told to wait were those early disciples to wait in Jerusalem until the Holy Spirit came and they had to wait for ten days from the ascension of Jesus until the Holy Spirit came . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | The true explanation is utterly different , and it had to wait for one of the most revolutionary thinkers of all time , Charles Darwin . |
| 22 | He had to wait for fifteen minutes before he was admitted to the Agency 's annexe . |
| 23 | He had to wait until nine o'clock to telephone the garage , and he had been told they had no time that morning and would try to get down in the afternoon . |
| 24 | It is also a moment of generalisation for the twenty-one-year-old second mate who on this voyage from Australia , carrying grain and bent on winning the famous gain-race , had had to contend with an arrogant and hostile captain and who had cast off his boat , after a collision in the dark had given a mortal blow to the Blackgauntlet and he had waited in vain for orders . |