Example sentences of "be [verb] [adv prt] for a while " in BNC.
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| 1 | I raised with David Ingram at my JAR a matter which I 've been mulling over for a while , arising from my role as Welfare Officer . |
| 2 | ‘ It has been going on for a while — but not on the scale it is happening now . |
| 3 | ‘ It 's been laid up for a while with a problem in the starting mechanism , but a friend is now completing a repair job for me , and we hope to be up and running again soon , ’ explained Gordon , pictured with the vehicle 's log-book . |
| 4 | I 'm going out for a while . |
| 5 | ‘ Will you be staying around for a while , or going straight back to bonny Scotland ? ’ |
| 6 | ‘ Cissie wo n't be coming up for a while , ’ she said , making her way back to the bed , ‘ do you want to wait ? |
| 7 | Pétain , he recommended , should now be put in command not only of the Left Bank , but of the Right Bank as well ; the ‘ fatigued ’ General Herr should be kept on for a while as Pétain 's adviser , then quietly ‘ limogé ’ . |
| 8 | They could get quite boisterous and reckless , especially during the early days , when they would be shut in for a while . |
| 9 | And Ben like when we were sort of there Ben sort of we 'd been sitting around for a while and he said it 's very embarrassing to have to ask this but you 're staying the night and stuff erm are you two a couple or are you just friends so no , just friends but it 's alright , if you do n't have any spare rooms we 'll be perfectly happy to sleep together , do n't worry . |
| 10 | The problem arose again thirty years later , when their energies were channelled off on a crusade which ended in defeat at Nicopolis in 1396 , and yet again in 1444–5 when , after the truce of Tours , the ‘ Ecorcheurs ’ who were , as their name implied , ‘ skinning ’ France , were led off for a while to Switzerland and the imperial lands . |
| 11 | ‘ Yeah , it 's a collection of tunes that I 've been working on for a while . |
| 12 | But the full force of the poison was staved off for a while . |
| 13 | ONE WAR WAS WINDing down for a while , not ending , because they never end . |
| 14 | The Shah said that he was staying on for a while , not flying immediately either to the States back to Egypt . |
| 15 | The rain was holding off for a while and the streets were drying in patches . |
| 16 | The Shell-owned Eider oil production platform , with 38 people on board , was shut down for a while . |