Example sentences of "had to wait a [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | He had to wait a quarter of an hour , but six or seven minutes after that he was climbing the weedy steps to the quay on the other side . |
2 | Yeah oh yeah I did n't work anywhere else in Willenhall at all , and erm but we 'd got to be in for seven o'clock and if erm you were n't in for seven o'clock and sometimes I used to hear the bell began ringing when I got to go around the corner and get into the , but you had to wait a quarter of an hour before they would let you in and that was stopped off your money and my wage was eight and fourpence a week . |
3 | Gedanken had to wait a minute for her eyes to get used to the inky black darkness again . |
4 | And he only had to wait a couple of erm points left on his licence so if I 'd taken the dangerous thriving or something he could have lost his licence but erm that 's besides the point . |
5 | Then he had to wait an hour for a taxi , but made it just in time to introduce Phil Collins . |
6 | A TERRIFIED pensioner had to wait an hour for police to arrive after an attempted burglary at her Teesside home . |
7 | Those who were paid had to wait an average of eight weeks for payment . |