Example sentences of "[noun] had to wait " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fans had to wait almost year before the song eventually appeared on vinyl . |
| 2 | Hick had to wait 48 hours to chalk up the final six runs to complete the milestone after reaching 82 not out on Thursday . |
| 3 | The British had never envisaged such a rapid build-up to this situation : India 's constitution was not finalised until 1950 , while Pakistan had to wait until 1956 for its soon-overthrown constitution ! |
| 4 | Hounslow had to wait until the second-half before England 's Martyn Grimley scored their first goal in a 3-0 win over Lyons , the Poundstretcher Second Division side . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | In the mid-eighteenth century the linen industry made its appearance , though power looms had to wait till after the nineteenth century Industrial Revolution . |
| 7 | The French manufacturers had to wait until 1892 for the Méline tariff , which meant an average duty of about 34 per cent on British goods . |
| 8 | Faldo had to wait until the ‘ 89 Masters before he could catch up with Lyle and maybe the picture of him on the 11th green , the second hole of a sudden-death play-off with Scott Hoch , encapsulates Europe 's men in the majors in the Eighties . |
| 9 | Unable to turn , Chant had to wait until the man walked past his supine body to get a sight of him . |
| 10 | But important matters had to wait on his attention ; and , if he chose to withhold it , might wait for some time . |
| 11 | He struggled towards an understanding of continuity , though the work had to wait for Newton and Gottfried Leibnitz to produce an infinitesimal calculus to master this difficulty . |
| 12 | Talking of Hampshire reminds us that the left-arm spinner Ian Turner had to wait till August before getting a Championship match . |
| 13 | That was in 1977 and Hope had to wait two years before making his second attempt . |
| 14 | For this , companies had to wait until 1855 ; and co-operatives until 1862 . |
| 15 | For example , no further summit meetings were arranged for quite some time , and the notion of regular summits had to wait until 1974 . |
| 16 | Rescuers had to wait 40 minutes while power to 780 homes at Shotton Colliery , Durham , was turned off before the body could be moved . |
| 17 | BRM 's F1 return had to wait until the new two-litre P25 was ready for its first full season in 1956 . |
| 18 | The female half of the population had to wait even longer for an equal political voice : not until substantial numbers of women had moved out from the shelter of the home to take an independent place in the labour market was women 's claim to a voice in the political market allowed . |
| 19 | The Roman Catholics had to wait another five years again , and I was already in Banbury when the Roman Catholic voluntary-aided secondary modern school was opened , in an odour of incense and the presence of an Archbishop . |
| 20 | The honourable draw had to wait till Old Trafford , although over eleven hours were lost to the weather . |
| 21 | LAST YEAR Andy Nicol had to wait until August — five months after the event — to hold his 21st birthday party . |
| 22 | Last week a Durham City vehicle took 25 minutes to answer an emergency call in Bishop Auckland , and recently a woman in Upper Teesdale had to wait over an hour for an ambulance . |
| 23 | Although enjoying the bulk of the possession Ipswich had to wait until the 29th minute before forcing Wright to make his first save , Zondervan hitting a long-range shot which the Newcastle goalkeeper tipped over . |
| 24 | The androids had to wait outside . |
| 25 | Halling had to wait until the 1939–45 war when a military bridge was erected and a road laid down and for a few years the people of Wouldham and Halling were able to move freely between the villages , which was a great asset to the people of Wouldham who used the bridge to get to work on this side of the river , but it was certainly the death knell of the ferry . |
| 26 | The farmers had to wait some considerable time for compensation , and when it came it was not the expected bonanza . |
| 27 | Straining the last possible revolutions from her roaring Paxman engines , the old lady of the fleet , Vigilant was first to reach Guiding Lights , but despite darkness and mist had to wait no more than a few minutes for the other cutters to join her — a feat of seamanship that later lead to great praise from their Investigation colleagues ashore . |
| 28 | Italy and Switzerland electrified their main-line railways early in this century , but the UK had to wait till the 1960s for electrification from London to north-west England , and the late 1980s to Yorkshire . |
| 29 | Party leader Dr Laurence Kennedy had to wait until the sixth count before he was re-elected . |
| 30 | Party leader Dr Laurence Kennedy had to wait until the sixth count before he was re-elected . |