Example sentences of "[noun pl] had to wait " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fans had to wait almost year before the song eventually appeared on vinyl . |
| 2 | In the mid-eighteenth century the linen industry made its appearance , though power looms had to wait till after the nineteenth century Industrial Revolution . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | But important matters had to wait on his attention ; and , if he chose to withhold it , might wait for some time . |
| 5 | For this , companies had to wait until 1855 ; and co-operatives until 1862 . |
| 6 | For example , no further summit meetings were arranged for quite some time , and the notion of regular summits had to wait until 1974 . |
| 7 | Rescuers had to wait 40 minutes while power to 780 homes at Shotton Colliery , Durham , was turned off before the body could be moved . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The androids had to wait outside . |
| 10 | The farmers had to wait some considerable time for compensation , and when it came it was not the expected bonanza . |
| 11 | Even if other painters had to wait for their money , Zbo tried desperately hard to make sure that Modi did not go without . |
| 12 | Firefighters had to wait for the mains to be turned off before engineers could cap the broken pipe in Swindon . |
| 13 | Trains had to wait upon the cows and were frequently late in consequence : |
| 14 | He said the worst figures were in ophthalmology where patients had to wait between 48 and 71 weeks just to see a consultant for a diagnosis . |
| 15 | Fellow passengers had to wait for another train to continue their journey because the original train 's safety mechanism had jammed . |
| 16 | The males then returned inland , but the females had to wait in the burrows for a further two weeks while their fertilised eggs matured . |
| 17 | Police had to wait before giving Jacko an escort to the M4 . |
| 18 | These repairs had to wait until the time of Haymo of Hythe , or as he was to be known as Haymo of Hythe . |
| 19 | Drivers and conductors had to wait three years , they had to be employed three years before they were accepted into the pension scheme but you know , believe me I 'm glad that I paid in for it . |
| 20 | However , shrouded children had to wait until 1467 before being considered worthy of commemoration , and their introduction is a dramatic one on the 1467 Astley brass at Standon in Hertfordshire where ten swathed infants , four girls and six boys , are shown . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Part of the reason why the shareholders had to wait so long for a return was that the original capital had been only 10,000 guineas , and the Company financed itself by fairly short-term loans from the merchants with which it did business , so the shareholders stood at the end of a long line of creditors but could expect substantial returns on their money in the end if the Company survived . |
| 23 | With Lloyd Davies in a new attacking role , the combination took time to settle , and crowds had to wait until the 1911–12 season to see the old magic at work again . |
| 24 | To begin with , the vets had to wait until a horse had broken down , and then sift through their collection of its graphs to see if and when they could first detect a change . |
| 25 | Marty Tabb almost grabbed an immediate equaliser when he rattled the crossbar from 18 yards , but the Reds had to wait until the 55th minute to get back on level terms . |
| 26 | Residents had to wait four years to elect their council after receiving that bill . |
| 27 | Residents had to wait a year before they could put in claims and it 's only now that they 're getting their offers through , based on the district valuer 's assessment of the value of their homes . |
| 28 | Women had to wait until the Second World War before invading station employment once more . |
| 29 | Passengers and sailors had to wait until 1931 for a ship with stabilizers . |
| 30 | Its close links with the English cathedrals had to wait for the Norman reorganization , which first made possible in England an absenteeism and pluralism on the German model . |