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

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1 Problems have arisen at King 's College Hospital , London , where large numbers of patients have had to wait on trolleys for up to 30 hours in the accident and emergency unit while waiting for a bed .
2 This time he did n't have to wait with trepidation for the entrance of Gesner .
3 My Lords , I think I made it perfectly clear what I did mean er I did qualify it by saying that of course there are times when patients do have to wait on trolleys for diagnostic purposes , for observation and for other reasons er but once an admission has been agreed , then that patient should be admitted , that is our policy and that is what we 're working towards .
4 But they say the best pilots start young and David Leech will have to wait till August for his first solo .
5 Doctors told her she needed an emergency hysterectomy , but because of a bed shortage she had to wait in agony for three-and-a-half hours .
6 Children in Italy have to wait until January for their presents .
7 But there is little inkling of how the mechanism will work , and we have to wait until December for the management executive and the Department of Education to come up with ideas .
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