Example sentences of "have wait for a [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Every time he has to wait for a question , he claims victory .
2 Each call sent out by a client has to wait for a response before another is sent .
3 Each call sent out by a client has to wait for a response before another is sent .
4 What happens if Well , oh sa , pwurgh , I do n't know , I mean she has to wait for a week .
5 Or whether you 've had to wait for an hour in the rain for the bus to come along , whether you 're in a good mood or a bad mood .
6 But they may have to wait for a year , and maybe even two , before the brief , dramatic cycle can begin all over again .
7 To find its most lasting realization , Charlie 's vision would have to wait for a bank clerk who did understand metempsychosis , and who had not only a commercial education gained in an underground room at Lloyds Bank , but also a knowledge of Greek .
8 At Darlington , so that they would not have to wait for a connection , they had hired a special train to Richmond , where they were met .
9 I also think that erm it 's up to erm us — I mean if you think of us as a whole travel industry — to really take a look at what we are providing and compare it with what is provided in other countries ; the standards of service , how long do you have to wait for a meal when you 're sitting down to eat in a restaurant , what are people used to in France and Germany and the USA ?
10 On February 27 she was told only a heart transplant would save her husband 's life and they would have to wait for a donor .
11 Sometimes he would have to wait for an hour or more before he could find someone to carry him to the Collector 's side .
12 Meanwhile , Pogo would just have to wait for an answer .
13 Does the Minister agree with the view therefore , that nurses that nurses should be given the authority to admit patients to hospital provided there is a bed without having to wait for a decision to be to be made by a doctor ?
14 Plus of course the attendant horrors for someone normally so well-groomed to have to wait for a face plastered with scabs and unshaveable stubble to heal .
15 But , alas , she was destined to have to wait for an answer , as Nettie , the housekeeper , chose that very moment to come into the room carrying a tea-tray .
16 Eventually , well into the afternoon , we found the route — but had to wait for a couple who pushed in front claiming they were ‘ HVS climbers ’ and would not take long .
17 He reached it without mishap but had to wait for a while , watching the day begin , until the ferrymaster arrived .
18 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 .
19 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 .
20 Clare was fired for turning up late after she had to wait for a doctor because Josh had a temperature .
21 We had to wait for an hour for our connection to Frankfurt .
22 Heather Courtley , whose son was the patient who had to wait for an hour , said she was not reassured .
23 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 .
24 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 ) .
25 For six years , on battlefields and in sieges , they had fought side by side and Harper , as soon as he heard of the new war , had waited for a word from his old officer .
26 Like a little puppy dog , he had waited for a sign that he was forgiven .
27 One Saturday morning she had waited for an hour and a half outside the dentist 's where he had gone to have a troublesome tooth fixed .
28 Mrs Di Brown , a former secretary of Yarm Conservatives who now lives in Abbey Road , Darlington , said she felt sorry for people who had waited for an hour or more .
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