Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [art] while " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You 've had enough X-rays for a while , so I 'm going to do nothing for the moment . |
| 2 | ‘ I talked to a couple from Stirling for a while — Mr and Mrs Maclean . |
| 3 | ‘ When we had n't seen her at the grave for a while we thought she must have gone away and so when we had any flowers left over we put them on Brian 's grave , ’ said Mary . |
| 4 | Perhaps the train in Aunt Louise 's mind had jumped back on to the rail for a while because it was then , in quite a conversational voice , that she began to speak of her daughter . |
| 5 | It would be easier to listen to a story for a while . |
| 6 | In the meantime , I 'd be really grateful if you 'd step aside and let me come on board for a while . ’ |
| 7 | So far he and his foreign minister , Mr Hans-Dietrich Genscher , have stuck nobly to the view that Germany should remain a member of NATO , with some ( no doubt far fewer ) NATO troops staying on in what is now West Germany and with enough Soviet troops staying on in eastern Germany for a while to make the Russians feel better about it . |
| 8 | Yeah possibly but I do n't think they , do , they do n't , I mean they , they lived in Germany for a while have n't they , so , I do n't think , oh no , did n't they go to Cyprus one year Pete and Colin or am I dreaming ? |
| 9 | It was just a slogan for a while after the War . |
| 10 | In fact some pro-choice advocates go so far as to deny that abortion is a moral issue at all — a favourite slogan for a while was ‘ abortion is a health issue , not a moral issue ’ . |
| 11 | Even where price increases have taken place , retailers with good stocks may be able to cushion the blow for a while . |
| 12 | I was wounded in a demonstration and had to retire from political activities for a while to recuperate and another member was killed in the massacre , when the security forces dislodged the peaceful occupation of the Venezuelan Embassy . |
| 13 | Willey and Balderstone , both on debut , stemmed the tide for a while , and then Greig and Knott came together at 169 for 5 with the follow-on a distinct possibility . |
| 14 | just fancy taking Penny in the west park for a while , I do n't |
| 15 | The word disturbed Maria for a while afterwards , although Cavell probably had n't given it any real thought , since she appeared so untroubled , her manner calmly confident and still strictly professional . |
| 16 | It was agreed that they would not see Minton for a while . |
| 17 | Stirling thus decided to abandon operations for a while and send a strong party back to base to collect stores and the new vehicles he had requested . |
| 18 | There was a lot of tooth-sucking for a while as he tried to get me to say more and that was almost funny , given that it was the tooth-sucking that made me think of it in the first place , suddenly thinking . |
| 19 | I mean there 's a strong Music Department here and we have a number of music students who come into the chorus for the while that they 're in the university — they often sing in the university choir , I think , as well and play in the orchestra , or perhaps the Meeting House Choir , and a number of members of faculty , I think , as well sing with us . |
| 20 | The Nazis are the most notorious , but the United States also instituted eugenic programmes for a while before WWII . |
| 21 | She may also use it as a greeting when she has been away from the kittens for a while . |
| 22 | It is fine to stay at this kind of level for a while . |
| 23 | You had them on radar for a while , ’ asked Duncan . |
| 24 | Oh , oh , well we 'd better go then , but we 'll come back next year because that was good I said no I 'm sorry you wo n't actually I 'm going I 've done my little bit for a while , no one else . |
| 25 | They would salt them down and let them lie in the brine for a while and they would take them out and dry them . |
| 26 | I wandered round the galleries for a while for the dinner was both spoilt and finished . |
| 27 | mum for a while . |
| 28 | Sexually mature males are driven out of this group once they grow big enough to constitute a threat to the dominant male ( although occasionally an ageing dominant male will allow a younger male to take over his harem and will be tolerated by his successor for a while ) . |
| 29 | He watched the canteen building for a while . |
| 30 | He was a Conservative Member of Parliament for a while and then humiliatingly lost his seat to a Socialist . |