Example sentences of "[verb] for [art] while " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Let me think for a while . ’ |
| 2 | He reached it without mishap but had to wait for a while , watching the day begin , until the ferrymaster arrived . |
| 3 | Tallis resolved to remain for a while , but turned her gaze away . |
| 4 | He was sorry he 'd forgotten to pay Betty any money last year , but could he come and stay for a while and pay her then ? |
| 5 | Perhaps she will stay for a while . ’ |
| 6 | I thought I 'd stay for a while . ’ |
| 7 | But she seemed to fidget him ; he would let her stay for a while and then say , ‘ Run along , duckie , ca n't you see I 'm busy ? ’ |
| 8 | He felt mercifully isolated and stopped for a while to lean back on the lower bank of fell . |
| 9 | I was n't going to court to get the order reduced , just stopped for a while until I get a job . |
| 10 | But it gave him an excuse to retire for a while , to re-assess things . |
| 11 | Next morning the humour in this wore decidedly thin , as Marshall in particular sent down bouncer after bouncer , unchecked by umpire Constant and apparently unconcerned at the damage he might do — such as badly bruising Fowler 's arm and causing him to retire for a while . |
| 12 | As the sun strikes their heads it plays for a while , scatters silver seed and dances away again , unnoticed . |
| 13 | Rye stood out from most other towns in that it became for a while a Puritan ‘ Common Wealth ’ , a centre of social experiment and rigorous public morality under its two vicars , Joseph Beeton and his successor John Allen . |
| 14 | She watched me eat for a while , mumbled something and left . |
| 15 | ‘ Then , cowpoke , you better get used to having nothing but cows to poke for a while . ’ |
| 16 | But then a lot of them fancied their chances that year — Peter Oosterhuis , Nick Faldo , and so on , and Bobby Clampett led for a while and it looked as though they might not be able to catch him . |
| 17 | A few youngsters may go on sniffing for a while — perhaps regularly with their friends . |
| 18 | They emerge and merge , co-operate and co-ordinate for a while , but they have a relatively short active lifetime . |
| 19 | In the dark office the human awoke , mooed for a while , and tried to jerk free of the cobweb of wires that held it down . |
| 20 | The Council became a genuinely learning process , and once the name of the game had been defined as aggiornamento , once ecumenical understanding and co-operation with other Christians had been moved from the presupposition of ‘ dangerous ’ to that of ‘ Christian ’ and ‘ highly desirable ’ , there developed for a while a new logic which could not easily be denied . |
| 21 | I mean for a while I think it was maybe my glasses , but these are just new |
| 22 | I lay for a while simply wrestling with the enormity of it . |
| 23 | They lay for a while catching their breath , then returned to Nettles . |
| 24 | Karelius awoke that morning at half-past six , and lay for a while thinking about Fräulein Müller . |
| 25 | They lay for a while , their hands lightly clasped , each deeply engrossed in their own thoughts . |
| 26 | I lay for a while waiting for the chateau to fall silent again before drifting into a demon-filled sleep of black war horses rearing above me , men flying through the night air , and those dreadful corpses laid out so tidily , so neatly , in that beautiful London garden . |
| 27 | She sits for a while beside them , her arm laid alongside the nightlight on the table ; the shoe of the Old Woman , with a pink bulb inside , lifts the shadows in a comforting way . |
| 28 | By a painter who befriends him , and who sleeps for a while with his mother , Jaromil , already self-perceived as exceptional , original , is introduced to modern art , which ‘ had not yet become the shopworn property of the bourgeois masses and retained the fascinating aura of a sect , a magical exclusivity fascinating to childhood — an age always daydreaming about the romanticism of secret societies , fraternities and tribes ’ . |
| 29 | Mr Rushdie succeeded for a while in obscuring these inter-Muslim differences . |
| 30 | What is more difficult to establish is whether the first building was inhabited for a while , demolished just after the inhabitants moved out , immediately paved over , and a new building later constructed ; or whether the first building was inhabited for a while , abandoned by its inhabitants for many years , then collapsed through decay , was paved over later on , and then a second building constructed . |