Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] for a [adj] while " in BNC.
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| 1 | And I knew for a little while that would be true . |
| 2 | At one school I attended for a short while , very much for ‘ young ladies ’ , the headmistress descended unexpectedly on a class , with a visitor , and found it in uproar . |
| 3 | I sat for a long while , clutching the unfinished poem , gazing beyond it . |
| 4 | I stood for a long while looking at Voting Right . |
| 5 | She lay for a long while , the tears falling . |
| 6 | She sat for a long while , until her limbs became cold and stiff and her mind numb with tiredness and misery . |
| 7 | I had not realized how close they had been but she grieved for a long while for the grandmother to whom she had felt close and in whom she had found it easy to confide . |
| 8 | It played for a little while , I did n't play it for long but it did play . |
| 9 | After that result he disappeared for a short while , but he returned in time to be included in Wilson 's government , initially as Secretary of State for Economic Affairs , a post he held between 1964 and 1966 . |