Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [prep] a while " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I freelanced for a while and ended up doing a lot of work for the Bee Gees in Florida , for Andy Gibb in particular . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | I played for a while , and then I stole up to look at her , because she was so still I thought she had fallen asleep , but her eyes were wide open , and there was colour , all rosy , high on her cheeks . |
| 4 | Her warm and wide smile greeted me at the door and I forgot for a while the riddles and innuendos which surrounded Brian Harley and hid the killer of Froggy Davies . |
| 5 | I turned after a while and they were still wistfully standing there . |
| 6 | My deeper antipathy to Germany and Germans I restrained for a while , on the absurd grounds that it was somehow unreasonable to abominate each of two mutually ill-disposed nations . |
| 7 | ‘ I remember being fascinated by the story when I worked for a while in the Royal Library . |
| 8 | I played the drums when I had to , I played the bass when I had to , and I felt after a while I could kinda have it as my own . |
| 9 | I thought for a while . |
| 10 | " I thought for a while it was for a baby of your own , " she said . |
| 11 | I thought for a while and said that the only thing I could think of was that the British government did not — although it would have been slow to admit it — at that moment cut much ice with the South African government , but the United States government cut considerable ice . |
| 12 | I thought for a while that the information would just go on accumulating from here on in , but thank God it 's already begun dropping off . |
| 13 | ‘ I thought for a while , when you drove past Lubor and me at lunchtime the next day and looked so angry , that my dinner appointment with you might be off , ’ she felt safe in commenting . |
| 14 | But then I thought on a while and raised my finger . |
| 15 | I hesitated for a while . |
| 16 | The shops were opening and I browsed for a while in one that sold books as well as newspapers and magazines , but I failed to find the American edition of Rodriguez 's book . |
| 17 | I dozed for a while , dreaming fitfully of soft beds . |
| 18 | Shortly before dawn I slept for a while on top of the wheelhouse . |
| 19 | I waited for a while but he did n't show any sign of appearing so I went outside . |
| 20 | I was playing guitar in a group which I ran for a while , and then had some success with a couple of singles . |
| 21 | I sat for a while thinking of what I 'd said and of what he 'd told me , and I still could n't believe that any of the people I 'd come to know so well was really a murderer . |
| 22 | I sat for a while watching the scenery slide by , wild uninhabited stretches of green and autumn-blazing trees , grey rocks and blue lakes punctuated by tiny hamlets and lonely houses , all vivid in the afternoon sunshine , a panoramic impression of the vastness of Canada and the smallness of her population . |
| 23 | I sat for a while holding the baby under my hands . |
| 24 | When he disappeared behind the dunes I sat for a while , scratching my crotch as the wind played with my hair and the birds returned to their nests . |
| 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 | It was cool in the shade and I stayed for a while by the deep pool below the falls before turning back to the path and climbing through the heat of the late morning past Poor 's Land towards Knarlton Knot . |
| 27 | Nobody spoke for a while . |
| 28 | Nobody spoke for a while , then the Exec Director reopened the discussion . |
| 29 | Nobody spoke for a while and it was Sarah who eventually broke the silence . |
| 30 | The return to normality after the Angelus hush made him feel that the all-seeing spirit which had for a while hovered doubtfully over his actions had now moved on . |