Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] a while " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am conscious that I have visited somebody a while ago and noticed the name of somebody e in the book in which rang very loud alarm bells in my mind |
| 2 | I 've had it a while now , couple of years . |
| 3 | That blue dress of yours looks well enough , but you 've had it a while now ; you need something new to wear . |
| 4 | It takes me a while to get there . |
| 5 | ‘ Joyce always slowed it down a bit for Americans — takes them a while to tune in y'know . ’ |
| 6 | From the other side of Portman Square I heard a police siren , which meant that the cavalry was on its way but with the traffic plugged solid it would take them a while . |
| 7 | It 'd take me a while to learn how to drive it , but after I learned that I reckon I could do it . |
| 8 | ‘ It will take me a while to get my travel permit stamped . |
| 9 | Er but we like say do n't want to put everything in cos it would take you a while to analyze that but that 's another thing you might want to put on . |
| 10 | Say it 'll take you a while wo n't it , |
| 11 | Well they might be a friendly , oh I do n't really know but er he 's so busy you see and he 's busy all kinds of day and night , now then , we asked him a while ago to be more careful when he was switching on the freezer units at night because they were waking people up , we asked him er a while ago if he 'd be more careful learning up at six o'clock in the morning because the chain and that we could n't sleep in the morning like , and all disturbing us all like that |
| 12 | I took me a while to cotton on . |
| 13 | ‘ It took me a while to realise that of course I am not really opening a window : something is zooming forward and appearing out of nothing . |
| 14 | It took me a while to believe those three things utterly and another while to risk acting on the belief . |
| 15 | I knew I made a mistake , marrying young , but it took me a while to work out what was wrong . |
| 16 | ‘ It took me a while to find out he ( Rare Bear ) pulled out because I could n't hear that well on the radio . |
| 17 | ‘ We saw each other around quite a lot but it took me a while to warm up . |
| 18 | This seemed to relate closely to my problems , but I have to admit it took me a while to pluck up the courage to do that deadly and dangerous deed ( that everyone tells you never to do ) to my machine ! |
| 19 | Electronic Mail ( E-mail ) is probably the least easy to configure under Mainlan , and indeed it took me a while to sort out exactly what was required to get a sensible system running . |
| 20 | The window was completely boarded up , it took me a while to do that . |
| 21 | It took me a while to take in what was going on , of course . |
| 22 | It took me a while to work out that it was now Saturday . |
| 23 | It then took me a while to realise the significance of it , but at last I remembered it had been around Dora Belle 's neck , the person who murdered Perk and she must have placed it in Perk 's hand when she buried her . |
| 24 | Took you a while though . |
| 25 | I think the death of David 's father was probably what took him a while to make the decision about leaving Ken , because to lose his father , who he really adored , who had always been a pillar of strength to him , changed his life , and I think David carried a bitterness about him dying for a long time . |
| 26 | He had never visited the prison here before , and it took him a while to find it . |
| 27 | Took him a while now he 's a very nice chap . |
| 28 | Took him a while to calm down . |
| 29 | But now yeah it took him a while to calm down but he 's a very nice fellow now , very nice chap . |
| 30 | It took her a while to understand what I wanted and where I wanted to go . |