Example sentences of "for a [adj] while " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The front door is locked now but the caretaker will let you out at the back , so you 'll be welcome to stay for a wee while longer . |
| 2 | And er on the other hand you can get in your car and you can get down to suddenly find they 've got the the road up or E G as we did coming down to York today there 's driving his his er surface lifter down the road and and er you 're stuck in a traffic jam for a wee while er |
| 3 | away for a wee while again . |
| 4 | Keep you out of mischief for a wee while again . |
| 5 | Come up and sit on your Gran 's knee for a wee while . |
| 6 | For a for a wee while . |
| 7 | For a wee while , yes . |
| 8 | keep you out of mischief for a wee while . |
| 9 | But now I 'm just deciding I 'll live off invalidity benefit for a wee while longer , leaving that in the hands of my my managing director and somebody else and the money that 's coming through from the Queen and whatever I 'm just gon na live on invalidity benefit , I 'm only drawing invalidity benefit , I 'm not gon na get any more money than invalidity benefit . |
| 10 | That 'll keep her going for a wee while . |
| 11 | And that 'll get the inside of that sorted out for a wee while again young William . |
| 12 | Th keep that going for a wee while again . |
| 13 | When you sit down for a wee while . |
| 14 | There we are , that 'll keep you going for a wee while longer James . |
| 15 | for a wee while . |
| 16 | Just for a wee while . |
| 17 | Seek out the company of cheery chums and forget your worries and woes for a wee while . |
| 18 | It would take about er it would take about three days like to really give it and then it would have to lie for a wee while to harden you know , the polish to harden . |
| 19 | I to the school after I was fourteen just for a wee while . |
| 20 | Listen , listen to me , when it 's finished , instead of putting it in the box we 'll put it on that other one and listen to it for a wee while |
| 21 | Well it 's alright for a while but that 's alright for a wee while now . |
| 22 | Yet there are also brief moments of recovery , moments of gratified desire and a coming to life : ‘ on this abandoned divan , I shall inhale for a long while still the earthy , vegetal smell which the faun left behind ; then , in the morning , wakened at dawn , I shall fling myself into the delicious air ’ ( p. 104 ) . |
| 23 | We were carrying light loads because it was our last day but we averaged about 25kph with ease , and for a long while . |
| 24 | ‘ But they say he must n't go home and live on his own , not for a long while at any rate . ’ |
| 25 | Others had been saying that nobody wore the Party badge any longer in Munich and that ‘ for a long while not a single person had believed anything the Führer had said ’ . |
| 26 | have hunted , slain and carried away deer , hares , coneys , pheasants and partridges … threatening the King 's officers in life and limb , so that they … for a long while have not dared openly to pass and do their business there . |
| 27 | It was the funniest sight I 've seen for a long while , but hardly fair on the birds … . |
| 28 | These articles are addressed to practitioners and for a long while I have been urging practitioners towards a greater involvement in the education of the profession 's next generation . |
| 29 | Indeed , for a long while the possession of a domestic clock or a watch tended to be restricted to the wealthy and was looked upon more as a sign of affluence than as a social necessity . |
| 30 | This core of lava may continue to flow for a long while , but when the supply of fresh lava slows down at source , there will not be enough coming through to fill the whole volume of the core , so an empty space will be left , and this will form a long tube or tunnel running along the centre of the flow , sometimes for many kilometres . |