Example sentences of "have to wait for [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We might well have to wait for six months before we found a prahu which was heading in the right direction . |
| 2 | The verdict on that one , however , may have to wait for many years yet . |
| 3 | However , that discussion will have to wait for another day . |
| 4 | A new motor car was for many a luxury that would have to wait for another day . |
| 5 | But I am afraid this will have to wait for another occasion . ’ |
| 6 | All is well , however , except that the 140 people on the island will have to wait for another occasion to exercise their democratic rights . |
| 7 | Managers who never leave do not have to wait for another manager to retire or die so that they can fill their shoes . |
| 8 | ‘ I 'm sorry to disappoint you , but Hadrian and his wall will have to wait for another time . ’ |
| 9 | Essentially , they are glorified leisure centres — Butlins for the Costa Brava generation , a way of feeling like you 're abroad without having to wait for three hours at Gatwick Airport . |
| 10 | There were n't any houses then and there was a big ditch where the canal side and erm we used to have to wait for each other , because no street lamps , nothing at all like that and er really we used to be afraid and then when the first bus ran , shall I tell you this , when the first bus ran from , from Bloxwich to Willenhall of course word got around that the buses were beginning , because the roads were only ruts , they were n't tarmacked roads then and it was certainly gentlemen first for the first there were about three hundred waiting that was a lot of at the top is it Street , I think it 's that and all the gentlemen were first but we , some of us managed to scramble on , but erm then they used to break down very very often because the roads the roads were in such a terrible condition they were only ruts . |
| 11 | Though debt-for-equity swaps represent one way for banks to recover part of their developing country debt exposure , they still stand to lose money and look likely to have to wait for some years before they can cash in their equity stakes . |
| 12 | He says it is not acceptable to have to wait for 2 years . |
| 13 | After the concert she had to wait for four minutes before McCartney could rejoin her … while he accepted a standing ovation . |
| 14 | They also pointed to an incident during which a patient had to wait for four hours for an anaesthetist . |
| 15 | We only had to wait for five minutes for the first boooooom … and a second … and a third . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | The trouble was that after they were born , children had to wait for six years before they could be sent to school and forgotten for most of the day . |
| 18 | He had to wait for fifteen minutes before he was admitted to the Agency 's annexe . |
| 19 | Forbes thus had to wait for fifteen years or so before the coveted post came up ; during this time Jameson sometimes teetered but always recovered , and his courses and museum fell behind the times . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | I had to wait for another performance to see . ’ |
| 22 | Fellow passengers had to wait for another train to continue their journey because the original train 's safety mechanism had jammed . |
| 23 | We had to wait for some months in order to get a passage and finally set oft on my birthday in January . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Electrical stimulation could produce dramatic effects , but the proper study of electro-physiology had to wait for some time until it was possible to record small electrical potentials . |
| 26 | We had to wait for some days until a convoy of ships was ready . |
| 27 | So you had to wait for full details of John Major 's new cabinet earlier this year . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | The answer I tend to get off a lot of places is that I have to wait for twelve years |
| 30 | Thus for a proper appreciation of the distinction between " slow " and " fast " you have to wait for electromagnetic waves to be introduced , discussed , and digested . |