Example sentences of "a while " in BNC.
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| 1 | For a while she believes that Peter Roche is a doer . |
| 2 | Salim 's outlook incorporates a version of that of his friend Indar , who teaches in the polytechnic for a while , and lends himself to the philanthropic white-liberal cultivation of the African experience , where some of the best comedy in the book is located . |
| 3 | And then mother and child might lie awake for a while , locked in unique perplexities . |
| 4 | Among those closest who should have been frightened was Annie , his girl for a while . |
| 5 | 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 ’ . |
| 6 | After a while you fly out . |
| 7 | Justin goes back to England for a while , and then , having broken some hearts , arrives in the Sudan to perform his own suicide . |
| 8 | it 's all impersonation — in the absence of a self , one impersonates selves , and after a while impersonates best the self that best gets one through . |
| 9 | Not , he wrote ( and Goldberg went on typing ) , that here in London one is cut off from such supplies in the normal course of events , but that work can not begin until one knows one will not have to bother with such things , for a while at least . |
| 10 | Of course , he wrote ( and Goldberg typed ) , there may be nothing to leave , nothing to explain , nothing to understand , even though I have prepared long enough and only started when the time was ripe , even though I began full of confidence and managed to persuade myself , for a while , that I was well under way . |
| 11 | Perhaps I should simply have left it alone for a while . |
| 12 | I had to put the project aside for a while , he wrote , as the rent had to be paid , not to speak of alimony , school fees and the rest , and , coming back to it after a considerable period , much longer , unfortunately , than I had anticipated , and I will not even try to apologize since you gave me a completely free hand — anyway , he wrote , trying to ignore the damp spots left on the page of his pad by his sweaty hands , anyway , coming back to it after all that time I realized that it would be quite impossible in practice to separate the valuable and the worthless , the public and the private , and that , in a sense , one would have to think in terms of either publishing the whole thing exactly as it stood , or not doing it at all . |
| 13 | Asked to be left alone with the glass for a while . |
| 14 | He came round to my side , stood beside me for a while , looking , puffing . |
| 15 | After a while he stepped back and puffed again at my side . |
| 16 | It took a while before they finally trusted me with a little cooking . |
| 17 | David was a hale and hearty kind of cleric , and for a while she cherished hopes of missionary work taking them into some exotic foreign clime . |
| 18 | for a while there I thought I was losing my touch . ’ |
| 19 | Act Three 's just gone up , so she 'll be a while , but Miss Baird 's not on yet . |
| 20 | But a good spy is supposed to take risks , so after a while I tiptoed along the passage to Claire 's door and peeped in . |
| 21 | It went quiet for a while , then we were both rescued by a knock on the door . |
| 22 | I watched the waters for a while . |
| 23 | I sat with my head in my hands for a while , then I went over to my desk and took out a small framed photograph of Anne and myself which I always hid before she arrived . |
| 24 | The headmaster was silent for a while , then he stood up . |
| 25 | I stayed for a while about twenty paces away from the platform barrier , numbed by the realization that I had fallen at the first hurdle . |
| 26 | I gazed at them for a while and then buried my head in my hands . |
| 27 | I sat quietly for a while finishing my most recent cup of coffee . |
| 28 | I dawdled around for a while and then headed south . |
| 29 | After a while , I was woken by the noise of preparations — something happening . |
| 30 | During my blue period my life also seemed to become a lot more structured than it had been for a while . |