Example sentences of "[adv] had to wait " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the England under-21 midfielder only had to wait until the 53rd minute to exact his revenge when he chipped in a telling cross for Goodman to score . |
| 2 | Maybe he thought that since there 'd been sixty-odd quid in my bag there 'd be more on my person , and he only had to wait till I nodded off and then he 'd nick it and away . |
| 3 | He only had to wait 6–8 weeks . |
| 4 | We only had to wait for five minutes for the first boooooom … and a second … and a third . |
| 5 | He only had to wait . ’ |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | She only had to wait till tonight , and she would get her answers . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | They no longer had to wait for the elusive Jennie to finish making a steak and kidney pudding before sanctioning an important business decision , but they had taken over in lean times and Doris began to find the strain intolerable . |
| 10 | After that Corbett just had to wait , pleased to rest and stay in the monastery where he felt secure and safe . |
| 11 | Apparently not bleeding to death , or considered worthy of priority , I just had to wait my turn . |
| 12 | You just had to wait longer for it to happen . |
| 13 | It was not yet time for Johann to open the front door for my friends , and I still had to wait . |
| 14 | But erm but he still had to wait that 's what 's crap . |
| 15 | This was surely the coldest and draughtiest station in the country , and I always had to wait there about midnight ; and I used to pray that the train would stop with a door opposite to me , so that I should have some chance of getting on at all . |
| 16 | Because the conductor always had to wait until such time as the queue was diminished quite a bit and hi his tramcar was full so that the next tramcar come along er coming along , whatever number , was to be d the same thing happening again . |
| 17 | In hospitals without a psychiatric unit , patients usually had to wait several days before being seen by the psychiatrist , occupying medical beds and often antagonizing the medical staff by their presence . |
| 18 | They usually had to wait for their father to come home to decipher Davide 's news aloud to them . ) |
| 19 | We also had to wait and see what effect the anti-male injection had . |
| 20 | Eva had become eccentric : when a decision was needed Ted and I often had to wait while she retired upstairs and meditated on the exact shape of the conservatory or the dimensions of the kitchen . |
| 21 | You often had to wait here while the Edinburgh trains came and went , but the delay did n't usually last this long . |
| 22 | However , Coun. Mrs Town said the time restrictions would seriously hamper disabled people who often had to wait for lifts into town . |
| 23 | I was a bit annoyed actually cos I even had to wait for him |
| 24 | This meant that actions to reduce emissions of sulphur dioxide within Brussels had only limited success in reducing smog levels and the city simply had to wait until the extensive smog bank drifted away or began to be dispersed . |
| 25 | They were meant to coincide so that travellers would have a smooth connection , but they rarely did , and the tea-houses and cheap hotels of Half a were swollen with travellers who invariably had to wait for days . |
| 26 | Indeed , it was something of a typically topsy-turvy but none the less gritty performance from Durie , who missed a match point at 5-3 and then had to wait an hour to complete the encounter after rain fell at the end of the ninth game . |
| 27 | Inevitably , he had flooded the engine , and then had to wait before he could try again , and still no sign of life . |
| 28 | I had a bath , then had to wait to see this officer in charge , and because they read on my notes that I 'd barricaded , I was put on this wing like C1 . |
| 29 | She and Oliver ran through the downpour to Cobalt 's car and then had to wait in the inadequate shelter of the wall until he arrived . |
| 30 | The Lancashire skipper then had to wait for a tense two minute trial by television to decide whether he could continue his burgeoning innings . |