Example sentences of "[verb] a while [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Let us linger a while at some of them . |
| 2 | He might linger a while in this village after all . |
| 3 | We crossed the River Annalee at Butler 's Bridge , then stopped a while at Cavan , before continuing southeast to Kells , on the River Blackwater , where monks had once preserved the sacred Book . |
| 4 | Afterwards , sated and happy , they both slept while the afternoon sun crept into the room and lingered a while on the wall where the photograph had been . |
| 5 | We retrace our steps to the station , wait a while for the ferry to take us back to Folkestone . |
| 6 | He rested a while on the oil-film |
| 7 | I expected to wait a while for a spawning , but within two weeks they surprised me . |
| 8 | But I decided to wait a while before speaking . |
| 9 | Er and if if they would work they did n't want money for it but they would stay a while with you so that they would get their bed for the night and they would get their grub . |
| 10 | It 's suggested that you should linger on the great avenues and squares in the morning and afternoon , to see the swarms of officials and experts who administer the universe hurrying to and from their offices ; or sit a while in the shady walks of the various public gardens , and watch these same officials ' wives proudly taking the baby out for an airing . |
| 11 | It takes a while for them to actually settle in , and they need quite a lot of support because we do work in teams and they 're quite well established teams with definite personalities . |
| 12 | Cos it takes a while for the steroids to like work down . |
| 13 | It 'll take a while to be ready for use with everything they do to it these days , and if she does need it , the sooner it can be ready , the better . |
| 14 | It 's a very playable game with some teasing puzzles that could take a while to sus out . |
| 15 | This 'll take a while to brown anyway . |
| 16 | It helps staff to work as a group , but it can take a while for somebody new to fit in . |
| 17 | For it will take a while for unemployment to level out and then start falling . |
| 18 | It might take a while for the contacts to happen , but they 'd happen . |
| 19 | No she said , it does take a while for caravans to dry out . |
| 20 | It may take a while before the clients cotton on to what is happening . |
| 21 | He had spent a while in the toilet , most of the time with his ear to the stethoscope-like instrument he 'd pressed against the closed door . |
| 22 | To watch a while from the tower |
| 23 | Even though you should rest a while after London , do plan other races and have other goals . |
| 24 | It took a while for the true magnitude of his achievement to dawn on the crowd , shell-shocked as they were by the defeat of their hero . |
| 25 | ‘ Again , being something so totally new and different , it took a while for people to fall in with it , ’ Shaun explained , ‘ but we 've built up a very strong client base in Doncaster and the district . |
| 26 | And , the other thing it took a while for u for us to get them to , they 'd never drunk milk out of a straw , through a straw |
| 27 | If you were unfortunate enough to get a bad cook it took a while before the powers that be realised it , so you had to put up with inedible food for weeks . |
| 28 | Both represent such a considerable departure from previous practice , however , and share so many features in common , that it has taken a while for the dust to settle after the major upheavals of recent years and for the difference between them to emerge . |
| 29 | It must have taken a while from Taunton , Charles thought , as Frances drove them in the yellow Renault 5 along the route Lesley-Jane had described . |
| 30 | They supposedly could even live a while in space without life support . |