Example sentences of "[vb -s] for a while " in BNC.
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1 | As the sun strikes their heads it plays for a while , scatters silver seed and dances away again , unnoticed . |
2 | 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 . |
3 | 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 ’ . |
4 | He thinks for a while . |
5 | This stance was not new but has for a while been taken by Nationalism Today . |
6 | If only it holds for a while . ’ |
7 | pulls on his trunks then he swims for a while , gets out , takes off his trunks , puts his towel round himself , rubs himself , walks round the pool a couple of times and rubs himself |
8 | Whenever there is a puzzling development in physics which seems for a while to put in question our basic understanding , you will hear someone say " I have the feeling that it 's 1925 all over again . " |
9 | Because of normal time delays , revenue continues for a while after sales cease . |
10 | Because of normal time delays , revenue continues for a while after sales cease . |
11 | I 've taken some of his toys with me to get his attention , which works for a while but he soon loses interest . |