Example sentences of "[subord] [pron] have wait for " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Chinese do n't like their planes to fly unless the weather is absolutely O.K. So we had to wait for a few hours for the plane to arrive from Shanghai . |
| 2 | Weather conditions precluded this , so he had to wait for the next scheduled plane from Wick to Kirkwall . |
| 3 | if I have to wait for you I 'll wait forever cos your eggs are not done |
| 4 | If you had waited for me to return and confronted me with your distress I would have told you . |
| 5 | They demand more resources for the school in their areas : they complain vociferously if they have to wait for their operations ; they demand that the state intervene to subsidise the price of the rail tickets from their commuter homes to their work . |
| 6 | It had appeared , it would move on , but for this moment it was there for her — almost as if it had waited for her to be alone . |
| 7 | He came out of the Harvester but it would have been nice if he 'd waited for there to be a gap in the traffic . |
| 8 | So if it peaks two years before you plan to cash in , you do not lose because you had to wait for the money . |
| 9 | Dr Higenbottam , who is attending a two-day symposium of the British Thoracic Society in London , said : ‘ There is only a finite number of human organs available because we have to wait for someone to die . |
| 10 | Because they have waited for this moment . ’ |
| 11 | Nor had she seen anyone she knew at the airport while she 'd waited for her flight . |
| 12 | She had awakened early , busied herself with her bags and , while she had waited for the taxi repeatedly told herself that men were a species that she would avoid at all costs from here on in . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Clare was fired for turning up late after she had to wait for a doctor because Josh had a temperature . |
| 16 | At the flat there were drinks parties and little dinners every week , which irritated me , as I had to wait for everyone to finish filling the air with their thoughts on the latest novel before I could go to bed on the sofa . |
| 17 | Juliet was waiting for her father 's denial , as she had waited for her mother 's , but again , it did n't come . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Carson had only just put the phone down after trying to get Alison 's number from Enquiries , but as he 'd waited for his call to be taken he 'd thought of her , perhaps contemptuous of his anxiety and annoyed by his persistence , and he 'd hung up without even making his request . |