Example sentences of "[pron] be [verb] for a while " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was teaching for a while , I did not miss many gigs , ’ he says . |
| 2 | So I was particularly pleased to find at one point , when I 'd indulged in a lengthy photo session , that the rest of the party had gone over the brow and out of sight and I was left for a while with the world to myself . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | ‘ Can you leave what you are doing for a while ? ’ |
| 5 | Your landlady said you was n't married , that you was waiting for a while . |
| 6 | I should recommend waiting for a gentler age than that in which we are condemned for a while to dwell . |
| 7 | ‘ He was one of the students who rented the Pitt house in Church Street , they were missing for a while . |
| 8 | When a vine is five years old it is rested for a while before the practice of provignage is resumed , after which the layering process may continue for upwards of fifty years . |
| 9 | ‘ It was lost for a while . ’ |
| 10 | Hsu himself grew up in eastern China but his account is evidently a syncretic blend of what he learned as a child from personal experience and what he learned as an adult , several thousand miles away to the west , during fourteen months ' fieldwork in the Yunnanese city of Tali-fu , where he was employed for a while as a teacher in a local missionary college . |
| 11 | Nothing was said for a while and then Maidstone straightened himself up . |