Example sentences of "[pron] [noun] [verb] for a while " in BNC.
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| 1 | My stomach did for a while , as it did not like the vapours given out by the hops in the borough market after the sea air it had been used to in Hastings , but one can not live on sea air . |
| 2 | My mother argued for a while that the dry heat was known to be bracing , but Lili went on to speak of rumours of a cholera epidemic in the rural districts and disaffection among the fellahin and I said I would rather go to Bournemouth , which was a black lie but efficacious since we had gone there for our holidays and my mother seemed gratified that I should wish to return . |
| 3 | She left her sister to rest for a while , and she herself set off at once with her possessions in a basket . |
| 4 | The first particular strategy which has been subject to criticism has been the reliance on possible first use of nuclear weapons as a means of countering presumed superior Soviet conventional power — a reliance which McNamara sought for a while to abandon when Secretary of Defense in the early 1960s , and which he openly challenged in a famous recent article ( Bundy et al . , |
| 5 | Gilbey , then 21 , became a member of her social circle and many of their friends assumed for a while that they were a couple . |
| 6 | His journalism continued for a while until the mid '80s when he decided to concentrate purely on recording . |
| 7 | Our information continued for a while , but it was of doubtful origin . |