Example sentences of "had to wait for [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After the concert she had to wait for four minutes before McCartney could rejoin her … while he accepted a standing ovation . |
| 2 | They also pointed to an incident during which a patient had to wait for four hours for an anaesthetist . |
| 3 | We only had to wait for five minutes for the first boooooom … and a second … and a third . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | He had to wait for fifteen minutes before he was admitted to the Agency 's annexe . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | I had to wait for another performance to see . ’ |
| 10 | Fellow passengers had to wait for another train to continue their journey because the original train 's safety mechanism had jammed . |
| 11 | We had to wait for some months in order to get a passage and finally set oft on my birthday in January . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | We had to wait for some days until a convoy of ships was ready . |
| 15 | So you had to wait for full details of John Major 's new cabinet earlier this year . |
| 16 | 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 . |