Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] a while " in BNC.
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1 | I joined a while ago remember . |
2 | I spent a while some years ago just improving my chordal knowledge ; I just sat down and learned it , because I was playing with players who were a lot more advanced than I was , and because I was doing a lot of sessions and stuff . |
3 | I remember a while ago someone told me he thought I should be wearing platform shoes , but we 're not into having symbols of different generations , we 're just into style as a ‘ thing ’ : we 're into flaunting things , it 's just part of what we are . ’ |
4 | I heard a while ago on the radio , that they were gon na put it up to eighty four fifty . |
5 | I waited a while , hidden in the shadows , watching the convent settle for the night . |
6 | And in the welcome silence I pondered a while . |
7 | This week you 'll commence phase two of a transformation which began a while back . |
8 | I walked back all the way from Fleet Street to Radnor Walk , which took a while … ’ |
9 | ‘ I think I 'd rather you lingered a while yet . |
10 | Why do n't you sleep a while . |
11 | Predictably , you seem to be getting all the flak for the Bill Davis/Alan Coren years of stagnation and complacency that led to the Punch you inherited a while back . |
12 | Disorientated , she took a while to realise where she was . |
13 | Tell him … ’ she thought a while , ‘ tell him Sycorax is dying . ’ |
14 | When her husband rose she lay a while , dreaming . |
15 | We also once had a not so young horse who took a while to understand the requirements of turn on the forehand . |
16 | You know the Goths and Vandals you had a while back. ? |
17 | ‘ No ; but … but I guessed something like that had happened from what you said a while back . ’ |
18 | ‘ Would you mind explaining something you said a while back ? ’ |
19 | Going out through a side door , she stood a while in the courtyard . |
20 | She stood a while , intently regarding him , her hand steadying the portmanteau on the bed , and only the merest glimmer of guilt colouring her face . |
21 | I would be honoured if you sat a while with us and shared the ch ‘ a . ‘ |
22 | The two of them spent a while together , in a flat in Glasgow , but they did n't marry . |
23 | ‘ We wait a while and they just go away . |
24 | Tony brings me a cup of coffee and tells me that the tracks we crossed a while back were , Odd-Knut says , jarv or wolverine . |
25 | We chattered a while and Benjamin was on the point of leaving when the Queen stepped forward . |
26 | We stayed a while longer before returning to our house in Clerkenwell . ’ |
27 | They talked a while longer but Doris Clay could do no better . |
28 | They talked a while and finally must have settled it . |
29 | They watched a while , till the Space Marine asked , ‘ Can mind and will move the bare bones now that the muscles are gone ? |
30 | They paused a while to let a fleet of barges , packed with city dignitaries , sweep by as stately as swans . |