Example sentences of "[pers pn] have wait for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Sorry to be so long — I had to wait for Tom to finish a phone call . ’ |
| 2 | He said : ‘ Do you really think that I 've waited for days and days for you to come back here , just to play bloody party games ? |
| 3 | Every time we go I have to wait for ages in the cold hospital wearing a scratchy towelling robe the colour of sick and drinking black coffee . |
| 4 | Did you have to wait for ages ? |
| 5 | ‘ I offered to bring her back again but she said she had to wait for Angharad . ’ |
| 6 | Cold with fear , she had waited for take-off , willing it not to happen , knowing it would . |
| 7 | Hyacinth felt excluded from it all , and rather wished she had waited for Carole Swan , or for Angela Cartwright , the delegation 's leader . |
| 8 | ‘ We are happy to support local schemes which wo n't worsen our mainstream business , and while hitherto we 've waited for passenger executives or consortiums to come to us with a proposal , we might in the future consider taking more initiative . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ We 've waited for years to have a Formula One world champion like Mansell — and now it looks as though we wo n't be able to use him . |
| 10 | Well a very close fought encounter at the stadium ; we had to wait for quarter of an hour for the first actual goal chance when Dave Bristow hit the ball from twenty five yards , which just cleared the bar . |
| 11 | Daniel , who spent £75 on new games and equipment , added : ‘ We had to wait for ages but it was worth it . ’ |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | As we were leaving the theatre , we had to wait for Dad to shake hands in the foyer with some dignitaries . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Those of us who make our own way there have little conception of the anxiety this may induce , unless , perhaps , we have waited for bedpans in hospital . |
| 16 | The warning her anxious mother had impressed on her as they 'd waited for Folly 's plane at Athens airport had obviously been quite correct . |
| 17 | See what they 've done they 've waited for December have n't they ? |
| 18 | After the chill of excitement , the ungovernable strangeness of the moment , they had waited for retribution , certain it would come . |
| 19 | The women complained that the officer could only have been on the housing list for a few weeks , while they had waited for periods of between eighteen months and four years . |
| 20 | Most people are likely to judge the reforms on how long they have to wait for treatment — the issue behind the ‘ Jennifer 's ear ’ controversy during the election campaign . |
| 21 | He 'd waited for Lucy but then , when she had n't come out alone , he 'd stayed well back in the shadows . |
| 22 | Dowd had stayed out of the Retreat all the time he 'd waited for Godolphin ( a wearisome three days ) even though it would have given him some measure of protection against the bitter cold . |
| 23 | The day before , on Monday , he had waited for Fanny , as arranged , on the bridge just outside Casterbridge , for over an hour . |