Example sentences of "have [verb] [adv] a [adj] while " in BNC.
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| 1 | He has arrived only a short while before , but did not question the order that von Keller gave to Lt Rosen and several men of the 10th Company to remain close to the vehicle and to bring it up to the battalion by road . |
| 2 | ‘ You 'll have to wait just a little while , Monsieur Gravellier , ’ one had said . |
| 3 | Many of the Minpins who had flown away a short while before were now returning on their birds . |
| 4 | I 've read somewhere a long while ago , there was some sort of warning and I ca n't remember the details you know . |
| 5 | We have to wait patiently a little while longer yet to determine whether the new generation Alpha RISC machines have turned Digital Equipment Corp around or whether the company is pursuing the same downward curve as IBM Corp , because the company has still scarcely started shipping the machines in real numbers — but it does not make it clear whether that is a function of supply or demand . |