Example sentences of "have [verb] [adv] [prep] a while " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I took a plumbers apprenticeship when I left school , ’ he said , ‘ But after I 'd worked here for a while , I decided to stay on full time . ’ |
| 2 | I may have dozed off for a while . |
| 3 | He would just have to play along for a while and wait for an opportunity . |
| 4 | The rain having petered out for a while , we all went out to stare at the sunset , about which the two poets made lurid remarks . |
| 5 | It seemed she 'd have to stay here for a while . |
| 6 | ‘ I 'll have to stay here for a while on business , ’ my friend the captain told me . |
| 7 | ‘ We 'll turn you in , arrange police protection , perhaps the family 'll have to move away for a while , but — ‘ |
| 8 | ‘ I 'm going to have to go out for a while . ’ |
| 9 | Dosh — I was pretty sure it was Dosh — and I danced some and she finished off the Kümmel , which meant we then had to sit down for a while near the window , where some scatter cushions had been laid . |
| 10 | so we had to sit down for a while . |
| 11 | Marie 's parents had strong religious views that made her feel very guilty about having sex in their home when she and her husband had to live there for a while : " We did it on the bedroom floor on the wedding night because I would n't use the bed , in case it made a noise . |
| 12 | Yes , Devlin had worked there for a while , but he 'd left three days ago . |
| 13 | Knowing it impossible to sleep again , she had lain there for a while and listened to the silence of sleep throughout the house . |
| 14 | The sex had drifted away after a while , and Jay did n't mind ; not in that end-of-the-world Astrid way . |
| 15 | ‘ He 's gone away for a while . ’ |
| 16 | He 's gone out for a while . |