Example sentences of "[verb] a while for " in BNC.
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| 1 | We retrace our steps to the station , wait a while for the ferry to take us back to Folkestone . |
| 2 | I expected to wait a while for a spawning , but within two weeks they surprised me . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Cos it takes a while for the steroids to like work down . |
| 5 | It helps staff to work as a group , but it can take a while for somebody new to fit in . |
| 6 | For it will take a while for unemployment to level out and then start falling . |
| 7 | It might take a while for the contacts to happen , but they 'd happen . |
| 8 | No she said , it does take a while for caravans to dry out . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | ‘ 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 . |
| 11 | 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 |
| 12 | 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 . |