Example sentences of "i [verb] for a [adj] while " in BNC.
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| 1 | Staying would also be impossible in the long run but that young man would let me stay for a little while — until the restaurant closed , anyway . |
| 2 | And I knew for a little while that would be true . |
| 3 | At one school I attended for a short while , very much for ‘ young ladies ’ , the headmistress descended unexpectedly on a class , with a visitor , and found it in uproar . |
| 4 | I sat for a long while , clutching the unfinished poem , gazing beyond it . |
| 5 | I stood for a long while looking at Voting Right . |