Example sentences of "and [verb] [adv prt] for [art] while " in BNC.
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| 1 | We actually got the rigging up and sailed around for a while in twos — I was with my brother and I thought we managed quite well . |
| 2 | Eliot produced a single page of notes from his pocket which he placed before him on the small table and brooded over for a while ; but when he started , he managed to pack in , during 45 minutes or so , a great deal of sound sense on the subject of drama and especially on the relation of drama to religion . |
| 3 | Sometimes he left the food , leaned into the wind and took off for a while , to circle and check that no Men were about . |
| 4 | Let your child suck water up the straw , blow it out and play around for a while . |
| 5 | When anything important happens you 're stunned , and thrown out for a while , and then you recover … |
| 6 | He retraced his footsteps and stayed around for a while , but it was too cold to linger long . |
| 7 | " I think I 'll just go and lie down for a while . " |
| 8 | It was in the third week after Minch had gone that he had first noticed that one of the Men , older than the Keeper , regularly came to the benches that ranged along the path by the Cages , and sat down for a while . |