Example sentences of "[verb] have to wait " in BNC.

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1 As Richards pointed out , the fact that the history of sexuality has had to wait so long to be written shows the strength of the taboos we have inherited .
2 She is a bit upset that she has had to wait almost a year before receiving any income .
3 Platt has had to wait in the wings because he is one of four foreign players fighting for the permitted three places .
4 The most highly regarded Australian umpire , Tony Crafter , has had to wait until the final Test of the series for his first match this summer .
5 he , too , has had to wait , partly because of Chris Smith 's consistency .
6 Darlington council has had to wait while negotiations have been completed with British Rail over the site ownership .
7 She 'd had to wait the best part of a month at Holmsly Manor , and then everything had happened at once .
8 But , alas , she was destined to have to wait for an answer , as Nettie , the housekeeper , chose that very moment to come into the room carrying a tea-tray .
9 He left the toffees on the table , not wanting to have to wait through five minutes of loud chewing between replies .
10 At home , where an admiral 's powers were much more restricted , and even the most favoured officers could expect to have to wait for their promotion until the end of the admiral 's period of command , when it was customary to make him the compliment of a few promotions on striking his flag , it was still possible to introduce new entrants to a seagoing life .
11 But he was going to have to wait until reaching England before he had the chance to branch into opera production .
12 And Elinor was just going to have to wait for her merciful release .
13 However much he wanted the answer to his unasked question , he was going to have to wait for it .
14 Worse still , the unique Gynaecological Oncology Unit at Bart 's was full — she was going to have to wait two weeks for a bed there .
15 We 're not going to have to wait much longer to learn which country and town have won AST Research Inc 's long-promised European personal computer plant .
16 Sub-contracting works fine most of the time but if you want something done urgently and the typesetter is broken or tied up on a job for its owner then guess who 's work is going to have to wait .
17 But I swear that when a Vadinamian tells an off-worlder that he 's going to have to wait around even longer , the joints between the upper segments curve into a number of smug smiles .
18 ‘ Then I 'm afraid it 's going to have to wait .
19 She was not feeling in her sunniest humour as she wondered if she was going to have to wait all day tomorrow for her summons , when someone rang her doorbell .
20 On answering it , with a sick feeling in the pit of her stomach , she realised she was n't going to have to wait until tomorrow to receive her marching orders .
21 Yes we know that Tim but you 're just going to have to wait until we 've all finished .
22 I do n't think Paul Kee will play , and to be perfectly honest , I do n't think Jim Magilton will play , but we 're going to have to wait until tomorrow ; Billy Bingham just ca n't make up his mind .
23 Other people who have contributed money all their lives to the NHS since it began have to wait 51 weeks for a hip replacement .
24 These machines are so rare that one like Ingrid 's , new , could cost £80,000 , and she might have had to wait four years for delivery .
25 How long would America have had to wait for the Community to pull all its members behind a common policy ?
26 Certainly those who were in the square in 1387 hoping to see the completion of the Duomo would have had to wait a long time , far longer than the span of a human life .
27 The only difference then would have been that he would have had to sign , and then we would have had to wait two more weeks ; and I 'll tell you , it 's interesting , with the bill the way it 's written , to put that on the Carrington case would have meant his being alive and suffering two more weeks and honestly , I would have had to do something like that in two weeks , probably because we 'd have to work hard on him .
28 ABBA MAY HAVE HAD TO WAIT YEARS , but the Right Said Fred tribute industry is starting up early .
29 It remains a mystery to me why we should have had to wait as long as this for a recital disc , and why it should not have appeared on one of the major companies ' labels ( all credit to Delos ) .
30 At the beginning of the 1980 's a typeface would have cost around $4,500 and you would probably have had to wait a couple of weeks while it was digitised from some master copy .
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