Example sentences of "had wait for [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had to wait for another performance to see . ’ |
| 2 | Fellow passengers had to wait for another train to continue their journey because the original train 's safety mechanism had jammed . |
| 3 | She had to wait for some time before the door was opened , and she hoped very much that it would be opened by Clelia , but it was not ; it was opened by a thin , brown , balding , youngish looking man . |
| 4 | Electrical stimulation could produce dramatic effects , but the proper study of electro-physiology had to wait for some time until it was possible to record small electrical potentials . |
| 5 | A packed hall had responded attentively to his intense , vocally elegant , performances of arias by Scarlatti , Stradella , Meyerbeer , Donizetti , Cilea and the Spanish composer Pablo Sorozabal , but with the opening instrumental strains of Catari in his first encore the vast audience suddenly burst into the kind of wildly enthusiastic applause that one had waited for all evening . |
| 6 | All through tea I had waited for some indication on his part that he knew I had seen the girl — as he must have known , for it was obvious that the nocturnal concert had been given to announce her presence . |