Example sentences of "[noun] [vb pp] for a while " in BNC.
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| 1 | The tactic worked for a while but it was madness to remain obstinately wedded to it while his son 's frustration increased and while men pressed for an end to political uncertainty in order to permit the launching of the crusade . |
| 2 | ‘ I wis lost for a while , because I had went there every day . |
| 3 | Best disk seen for a while ! |
| 4 | Going back to work in a different job helped for a while , however . |
| 5 | On a seat beneath General Wolfe 's statue , which looks down on the river and is still scarred by the bombs of a war later than the one in which he died , Coffin rested for a while . |
| 6 | So there the subject rested for a while , except that we agreed to purchase coffins at some future date to put by in readiness for the inevitable , but owing to the usual pressures of day-to-day living we never got around to it . |
| 7 | Gilbey , then 21 , became a member of her social circle and many of their friends assumed for a while that they were a couple . |
| 8 | If other people in your household smoke , try to persuade them to give up , or to smoke in the garden shed for a while . |
| 9 | The silence held for a while and then she heard a low laugh that seemed to trace itself right down her spine too . |
| 10 | But it was in New Orleans , when the alcoholic fog lifted for a while , that he wrote eleven hundred pages in a four-month period ending in early 1987 . |
| 11 | Some of the journals continued for a while until their organisers were arrested . |
| 12 | Time ceased for a while for them as they kissed and held each other . |