Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] a little while " in BNC.
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| 1 | and what we 've got to do is er er as I said to Ed a little while ago , I mentioned a little while ago , we need to gather the other thin section |
| 2 | ‘ I 've been on 10 or 11 tours in my career and it 's time that I spent a little while with my family . |
| 3 | I spent a little while there and enjoyed a helicopter trip for the very first time , although not without considerable trepidation having once or twice seen pictures of them whizzing down to the ground in pieces . |
| 4 | Lunch might have been an unqualified disaster , she reflected a little while later , but dinner was proving less of an ordeal than anticipated . |
| 5 | She left a little while later , happier than she had been for a long time . |
| 6 | There are many lessons we can learn from other animals , to our great and continuing advantage , and it is high time we took a little while to sit and stare at the other creatures with which we share the earth . |
| 7 | They arrived a little while ago . |
| 8 | They went a little while ago , apart from that they never came on this end |
| 9 | ‘ Enjoy that , did you ? ’ he drawled a little while later , reappearing with a plate piled high with soft sponge and cream and two glasses that overflowed with bubbling champagne . |
| 10 | he 's , he died a little while ago . |
| 11 | It took a little while to dispose of the competition . |
| 12 | Again it took a little while for them to calm down and when they had , Bartlemas , with mock solemnity , handed the envelope to Jacqui . |
| 13 | His proud father , also called Thomas , said today : ‘ It took a little while for us to realise what he had done . |