Example sentences of "[pron] have wait a long time " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had to wait a long time for an answer , and just before the door opened I nearly came sufficiently to my senses to run away , but sanity came too late . |
| 2 | I had to wait a long time shut in . |
| 3 | And I was a bit late , so I had to wait a long time to get served . ’ |
| 4 | An overwhelmed Fogarty said : ‘ I 've waited a long time for this . |
| 5 | So erm I 'm you kn I do n't propose to do that again because I would n't er I would n't arrange a speaker if we had a full table show but it 's nice to know that it did work out because we were , I was forced into a corner a little bit erm and I think it was worth it because we as I say I 've waited a long time for Danny and he was well worth listening to , I can listen to Danny for hours because he he just speaks and , and tells you about his fish , I 'm , I 'm very very fond of listening to Danny cos I think he gives a good talk . |
| 6 | I 've waited a long time to be able to do this . ’ |
| 7 | I 've waited a long time for this . ’ |
| 8 | I have waited a long time before writing to you , hoping all the time that I might hear good news of Leslie from Wendy . |
| 9 | He said : ‘ I have waited a long time for this chance and it 's up to me to make the most of it . |
| 10 | I have waited a long time to catch The Economist out on an egregious factual error . |
| 11 | ‘ She has waited a long time for rest . |
| 12 | But there are particular areas like this , you having to wait a long time and if you come into the building to go and see a film and you 've you 've left an hour to , to have some food you , you really should n't be missing the film because |
| 13 | She had waited a long time for this moment . |
| 14 | After all , she had waited a long time to belong , but she had never realised she could belong so completely . |
| 15 | ‘ You have waited a long time to tell me . |
| 16 | She explained that with some people one had to wait a long time before one saw what one wanted to see . |
| 17 | We had to wait a long time because I had my mother to look after and she was rather difficult . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ We have waited a long time to have car tax taken off , but VAT is still 17.5 per cent , ’ he says . |
| 19 | So if , as seems likely , we have to wait a long time for a follow up to the triumphant Glyndebourne production , we should be all the more grateful for occasions like the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra 's concert performance ( sponsored by English Estates ) . |
| 20 | ‘ They 've waited a long time . |
| 21 | a matter will be er that we going to fight er , easily er so I mean i , it meant that the er , that er er some more should be brought out so that it er does er adhere to what er these er er government departments er expect as a response rather than er er as this considered issue raising er , we can er facilitate that er quite er easily but er I think er the the main point is what Hugh has said , that er we opposed it because it 's not going to help in my view it 's not going to help er the patients , the patients are not going to come off any better as a result of er , these er er what I would say and I feel and er the , I I I 'd like to know what er the GP 's think about cos GP 's usually erm er , advise their patients if they have to wait a long time from one hospital , they would advise them to go into London and er , if that 's been stopped as been er that 's been stated erm then erm , er the GP 's are not going to feel very happy about their patients er , getting er erm a lesser service . |
| 22 | But the poem of his that he most needed reassurance about was Homage to Sextus Propertius ( 1919 ) , and for that he had to wait a long time . |