Example sentences of "[pers pn] [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 | ‘ I think I 'd rather you lingered a while yet . |
| 8 | Why do n't you sleep a while . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Disorientated , she took a while to realise where she was . |
| 11 | Tell him … ’ she thought a while , ‘ tell him Sycorax is dying . ’ |
| 12 | When her husband rose she lay a while , dreaming . |
| 13 | You know the Goths and Vandals you had a while back. ? |
| 14 | ‘ No ; but … but I guessed something like that had happened from what you said a while back . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ Would you mind explaining something you said a while back ? ’ |
| 16 | Going out through a side door , she stood a while in the courtyard . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | I would be honoured if you sat a while with us and shared the ch ‘ a . ‘ |
| 19 | The two of them spent a while together , in a flat in Glasgow , but they did n't marry . |
| 20 | ‘ We wait a while and they just go away . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | We chattered a while and Benjamin was on the point of leaving when the Queen stepped forward . |
| 23 | We stayed a while longer before returning to our house in Clerkenwell . ’ |
| 24 | They talked a while longer but Doris Clay could do no better . |
| 25 | They talked a while and finally must have settled it . |
| 26 | They watched a while , till the Space Marine asked , ‘ Can mind and will move the bare bones now that the muscles are gone ? |
| 27 | They paused a while to let a fleet of barges , packed with city dignitaries , sweep by as stately as swans . |
| 28 | One of the problems of deciding how much of a person 's temperament is inherited is due to the fact that babies are usually brought up in an environment of both parents , or at least more than on individual , and that they take a while to grow and show many personality characteristics . |
| 29 | Usually the ones at the bottom start to rot first , but they take a while to discover . |
| 30 | Mark lets her cry a while . |