Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] for a while [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I lay for a while waiting for the chateau to fall silent again before drifting into a demon-filled sleep of black war horses rearing above me , men flying through the night air , and those dreadful corpses laid out so tidily , so neatly , in that beautiful London garden . |
| 2 | I sat for a while holding the baby under my hands . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Hands linked behind her head , she lay for a while thinking over the extraordinary events of the day . |
| 5 | They lay for a while catching their breath , then returned to Nettles . |
| 6 | After crossing the dock channel by way of the lock gates catwalk , they paused for a while watching and listening to the bedlam of noise from the riveting guns as the shipyard men worked on a small coastal tanker in the dry dock . |
| 7 | He took off his glasses and put his arms around her waist , and they stood for a while facing one another . |
| 8 | He stayed for a while reflecting on what Fitzormonde had told him ; first , both Sir Ralph and Mowbray 's murders were connected to that terrible act of betrayal in Cyprus so many years earlier . |
| 9 | He stayed for a while sitting exhaustedly as if loath to take up his burdens again , postponing the moment when he would have to go back to supporting everyone else . |
| 10 | And as Morse opened his passenger door , he stood for a while looking up at the Pole Star , and asking himself the question he had been asking for the past two hours : was there any way in which Downes could still have been the murderer after all ? |
| 11 | He stood for a while staring at them . |