Example sentences of "[verb] there for a while " in BNC.
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| 1 | Will you and Jane wait there for a while until I 'm respectable again ? ’ |
| 2 | Nanny and baby could both be accommodated there for a while . |
| 3 | It goes as far as it can and waits there for a while , its big eyes staring up , tantalized . |
| 4 | so I 'm thinking of staying there for a while |
| 5 | ‘ We can hide there for a while . |
| 6 | The young woodlice hatch in this pouch and stay there for a while . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | He found it and clung there for a while , then pushed clear and knelt among the waves , head lowered . |
| 10 | ‘ I should stay there for a while , ’ said Elise , when she brought in a breakfast tray . |
| 11 | If he would like to sit there for a while and learn something , I will then cheerfully give way to him . |
| 12 | Yes , Devlin had worked there for a while , but he 'd left three days ago . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | They sat there for a while feeling drained and empty . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Then she went back to her car and sat there for a while . |
| 17 | I sat there for a while . |
| 18 | ‘ 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 . |
| 19 | Knowing it impossible to sleep again , she had lain there for a while and listened to the silence of sleep throughout the house . |
| 20 | I stood there for a while in the damp grey afternoon and whispered : ‘ Godspeed . ’ |