Example sentences of "we [verb] to wait for " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Ai n't we going to wait for him ? ’ |
| 2 | We going to wait for them . ’ |
| 3 | Will he beef up the public consultation procedures which his Department are currently casting aside like autumn leaves shrivelling on the ground , or do we have to wait for a Labour Government in the full flush of a green spring and summer to bring sense back into our planning system ? |
| 4 | Will he now change his mind or shall we have to wait for the people to do that for him ? |
| 5 | Will we have to wait for a Labour Government before positive action is taken ? |
| 6 | Lakeside resident Denton Bell said : ‘ Will we have to wait for somebody to die or for a building to burn down before something is done ? ’ |
| 7 | So , no sooner did the record go into the charts and we were going ‘ yeah , this is it — hooray — we 're taking off ’ , they dropped the record and we had to wait for the guys to come back to earth . |
| 8 | Soviet policy with regard to Eastern Europe was sloganised as ‘ development in groups ’ , as though we had to wait for Mongolia to catch up before we could be allowed to develop . |
| 9 | We had to wait for an hour for our connection to Frankfurt . |
| 10 | But all the local ambulances were busy and we had to wait for one to come from Richmond , which is many miles away . |
| 11 | We had to wait for some months in order to get a passage and finally set oft on my birthday in January . |
| 12 | We had to wait for some days until a convoy of ships was ready . |
| 13 | Daniel , who spent £75 on new games and equipment , added : ‘ We had to wait for ages but it was worth it . ’ |
| 14 | Klaasen 's contention that ‘ the only integration that has gone on so far has been among the top officials ’ seemed to be borne out by the fact that we had to wait for the penultimate game of the tours to seen the first nonwhite player take the field . |
| 15 | We had to wait for all three of them to finish before getting it back . |
| 16 | As we were leaving the theatre , we had to wait for Dad to shake hands in the foyer with some dignitaries . |
| 17 | So we 'd fill them and we could n't see anyway , lookin We could n't look down and see , we had to wait for the foreman shouting all the instructions , move left , forward or up or down . |
| 18 | I followed mum and joined a long queue , there we had to wait for ages while other people on our flight handed in their tickets . |
| 19 | Well that was the , the erm union for us , erm I think erm one of the great assets of being in public transport was that we were in a local erm pension scheme , erm when , when we in the office started , we had to wait until we were eighteen and then we had to wait for a vacancy because there was a limited number of people that the Council were prepared to back by paying a similar amount . |
| 20 | We had to wait for the police and the doctor to certify what had happened . |
| 21 | His one break from bop conventions lay in the pacing of each set , since he favoured fast tempi almost exclusively , and we had to wait for the penultimate tune of the night to hear a ballad played at real ballad speed . |
| 22 | The Chinese do n't like their planes to fly unless the weather is absolutely O.K. So we had to wait for a few hours for the plane to arrive from Shanghai . |
| 23 | So we had to wait for the next bus , which was six o'clock . |
| 24 | Well a very close fought encounter at the stadium ; we had to wait for quarter of an hour for the first actual goal chance when Dave Bristow hit the ball from twenty five yards , which just cleared the bar . |
| 25 | Dr Higenbottam , who is attending a two-day symposium of the British Thoracic Society in London , said : ‘ There is only a finite number of human organs available because we have to wait for someone to die . |
| 26 | ’ Even if a car is n't in stock and we have to wait for it to be built , we can generally hold the agreed price . ’ |
| 27 | Be quiet , little girl , we have to wait for the train to come . |
| 28 | He says : ‘ It 's ludicrous that we have to wait for three to five years when a foreign company can come in and pick up a UK TV company right now . ’ |
| 29 | In the morning we have to wait for the sun to turn it to water . |
| 30 | It is for later developments in the theory of ideology that we have to wait for in account that does not raise Marx 's materialism to a status such that it can not itself be analysed as ideology . |