Example sentences of "[verb] for a while [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She sits for a while beside them , her arm laid alongside the nightlight on the table ; the shoe of the Old Woman , with a pink bulb inside , lifts the shadows in a comforting way . |
| 2 | 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 ’ . |
| 3 | Mr Rushdie succeeded for a while in obscuring these inter-Muslim differences . |
| 4 | The ground was comparatively dry , and she guessed the sea would be checked for a while by the dunes ; but not for long . |
| 5 | Or sit for a while with your back against the trunk of a mature tree ( preferably an oak ) ; breathe deeply and allow yourself to merge , as it were , with the energies of the tree . |
| 6 | Intimacy with God , with each other , and with the neighbourhood in which we lived , following the example of Jesus in John 1:14 : ‘ The Word became flesh and lived for a while among us . ’ |
| 7 | We concentrate for a while on I , the principle of induction . |
| 8 | No more was heard for a while about how the Masai were straining to get at the Kikuyu . |
| 9 | He fussed for a while over a large teapot , pouring both of us outsize cups of tea . |
| 10 | Easter is with us and it is good to be reminded for a while about the eternal religious traditions , such as a really stupid controversy . |
| 11 | She wandered for a while under the climbing roses and clematis , coiled over wooden trellises to make shady walkways . |
| 12 | We had been advised that if we laid on a couple of bottles of champagne he might stay and chat for a while after the show . |
| 13 | Perhaps her mother would agree to her returning for a while to Framlingham … |
| 14 | ‘ After London , I 'll go to train for a while in Boulder in the United States and start preparing for the Olympics . ’ |
| 15 | If you have to stand for a while at work or in a queue , it would be helpful to have one leg behind the other with the feet at about 45 degrees to each other . |
| 16 | Lynn sat slumped for a while in catatonic gloom , scratching bubo-like mosquito bites and reading about foreign horrors in an Amnesty International magazine , and then she too turned in . |
| 17 | And some say that Jesus himself visited Glastonbury , after his resurrection , living for a while in a house where Glastonbury Abbey now stands . |
| 18 | I experimented for a while with rudders on drifters , working on the principles of sailing crafts where the vane ( sail ) is set at an angle to the rudder ( submerged stem section ) so that although the wind would blow the vane at the same angle the offset rudder would make the float cut across the surface carrying it out into the lake even though the wind blew along the bank . |
| 19 | And , pausing for a while between two crags , |
| 20 | Several of the changes Mr Major announced will not come in until next year , and their effects will hardly be noticed for a while after that . |
| 21 | Despite the vehement opposition to the passage of the Act by the tuna industry , steady progress was being made for a while by the US tuna fleet to reduce dolphin kills , until the election of ex-Californian governor Ronald Reagan as US President . |
| 22 | Let us assume that agents have been flirting for a while with the use of the adaptive expectations mechanism but that , in the light of the persistent , systematic errors which this mechanism entails , they quickly abandon it . |
| 23 | It has even been mistakenly argued that at some point during the 1320s he fled to Paris and studied for a while at the Sorbonne . |
| 24 | He played for a while in a group called Meterzone who appeared mainly at student parties . |
| 25 | This relief , it may be added , was matched for a while by the exemption of some forty villages in the West Riding in 1319 , and of 128 villages in the North Riding in 1322 , from lay taxes because of the scale of their poverty resulting from the Scottish raids . |
| 26 | He drove for a while in silence . |
| 27 | Nevertheless , this peculiar combination had a long life and was destined to reappear in the Middle Ages as the Albigensian heresy that flourished for a while in southern France but was eventually crushed in the first quarter of the thirteenth century by the northern French at the command of the most powerful of the medieval Popes , Innocent III . |
| 28 | But he soon became convinced that the herpes virus , which was thought for a while to be associated with cancer , had in reality nothing to do with the disease . |
| 29 | Climbs can weep for a while after heavy rain , but the rock away from the natural drainage lines dries quickly . |
| 30 | 11.01am : Pavement feels softer than usual , so I lie for a while before crawling to the ‘ Suck and Syphon ’ , Editor 's favourite pub . |