Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] have to wait " in BNC.
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| 1 | O'Neill 's suspect views were known to many unionists and the conservatives did not have to wait for the fruits of O'Neillism , however timid they may have been . |
| 2 | She did not have to wait long for a train . |
| 3 | He had the good grace to apologise afterwards and I also expressed my gratitude that I did not have to wait an hour or so until the training was finished before I could obtain his team and get busy . |
| 4 | Yet , Empirical Socialism did not have to wait for Keynes to propound the idea of demand-led growth as the solution to the recurrent crises in Capitalism . |
| 5 | He did not have to wait very long . |
| 6 | Certainly he was not waiting to see Artai — the Khan of the Merkuts was so powerful that he did not have to wait for audience like other men . |
| 7 | They did not have to wait long before Shildon emerged and told them . |
| 8 | We went up on to the roof , and we did not have to wait long . |
| 9 | I did not have to wait long . |
| 10 | She did not have to wait very long to find out . |
| 11 | But British and French workers did not have to wait for an economic upturn . |
| 12 | But Ramsden 's ( illustrated ) did n't have to wait for television to make its name . |
| 13 | We left a message and did n't have to wait too long . |
| 14 | Anyway we did n't have to wait , we did n't have to persuade , we had simply to stop conspiring in our oppression . |
| 15 | As some of the options ( transfers etc ) only come up when you land on the right square , I did n't have to wait eons for Phil to finish his turn . |
| 16 | Dirk Coetzee did n't have to wait long for a really big job . |
| 17 | They did n't have to wait long to find out where she was . |
| 18 | We did n't have to wait long . |
| 19 | I did n't have to wait long : another soldier passed and was asked to accompany me . |
| 20 | He did n't have to wait long . |
| 21 | Well I did n't have to wait too long for you today . |
| 22 | And they did n't have to wait long , did they ? |
| 23 | This was designed to be a very generous criterion , minimal examples of correct details could be ‘ We did n't have to wait at the lights ’ or ‘ There were several cars ahead of us ’ . |
| 24 | I kept one eagle eye out for wardens and policemen with nothing better to do than harass taxi-drivers , but I did n't have to wait long . |
| 25 | I left them to it but did n't have to wait long . |
| 26 | This time he did n't have to wait with trepidation for the entrance of Gesner . |
| 27 | And she did n't have to wait long . |
| 28 | I arrived at the station in good time for the train but I did n't have to wait more than three or four minutes and I was in London at ten to eleven . |
| 29 | The Romans did no have to wait for the Greeks to discover that they were mortals . |