Example sentences of "there [prep] a while " in BNC.
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| 1 | Knowing it impossible to sleep again , she had lain there for a while and listened to the silence of sleep throughout the house . |
| 2 | ‘ I was there for a while , ’ she said pointedly but she was careful not to press too much . |
| 3 | I stood there for a while in the damp grey afternoon and whispered : ‘ Godspeed . ’ |
| 4 | They sat there for a while feeling drained and empty . |
| 5 | It goes as far as it can and waits there for a while , its big eyes staring up , tantalized . |
| 6 | and there for a while we stand |
| 7 | ‘ You 'll be all right there for a while , ’ she told him , tying on the lid with a piece of string . |
| 8 | Nanny and baby could both be accommodated there for a while . |
| 9 | The young woodlice hatch in this pouch and stay there for a while . |
| 10 | Preston sat there for a while stroking her and then , when he was sure that she was sleeping soundly , he crossed over to the window and lifted a corner of the curtain and peered cautiously out into the street . |
| 11 | She took the smoke down deep into her lungs and held it there for a while before letting it out slowly . |
| 12 | He found it and clung there for a while , then pushed clear and knelt among the waves , head lowered . |
| 13 | Then she went back to her car and sat there for a while . |
| 14 | I sat there for a while . |
| 15 | Stealing from the camp one night with only his rifle and iron rations , wading the river at the border , finding a sympathetic ship 's captain to take him to Sweden , working there for a while and then making his way down through Poland and Germany and the rest of Europe , village by village , shtetl by shtetl , always moving west , America the ultimate goal , until he reached Cork . |
| 16 | Marie 's parents had strong religious views that made her feel very guilty about having sex in their home when she and her husband had to live there for a while : " We did it on the bedroom floor on the wedding night because I would n't use the bed , in case it made a noise . |
| 17 | ‘ He sent him back to the pub ; he sat there for a while , and when he came back he 'd got the front shoes on . |
| 18 | Settled down there for a while . |
| 19 | In the event she did neither , but lay there for a while wondering what Johnny was doing , hidden away from her behind time 's misty barrier . |
| 20 | I had an idea I could hide out there for a while , maybe rest up , maybe make a connection who could get me out of the City . |
| 21 | ‘ We can hide there for a while . |
| 22 | But then she got married and we lived down the road there for a while till they repaired these , they made these There was very old houses these are . |
| 23 | If he would like to sit there for a while and learn something , I will then cheerfully give way to him . |
| 24 | Yes , Devlin had worked there for a while , but he 'd left three days ago . |
| 25 | He would n't get back in there for a while . |
| 26 | Will you and Jane wait there for a while until I 'm respectable again ? ’ |
| 27 | Only I was happy out there for a while . |
| 28 | ‘ I should stay there for a while , ’ said Elise , when she brought in a breakfast tray . |
| 29 | Hello tape recorder , you seemed to go off there for a while , I 'm just checking that you 're still working again , thanks very much . |
| 30 | After selling security equipment there for a while , he went to New Zealand , and there made his first bungee dive off a high bridge . |