Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] a [adj] while [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are many lessons we can learn from other animals , to our great and continuing advantage , and it is high time we took a little while to sit and stare at the other creatures with which we share the earth . |
| 2 | During our journey we had been taken to Sherwood Forest , where we had a short while to look around and similarly at Chatsworth house . |
| 3 | but you know , it takes a long while to get over it |
| 4 | Sometimes it takes a little while to realize you really have lost interest in something , I said to him . |
| 5 | If people told me that was all well and good but if they did n't , but I did hear about this erm er she did the operation on the girl who er who could n't get rid of her baby , and then it , she lo she sent she sent a telegram to her husband or a letter er it took a long while to come from the Far East , he was in the Far East . |
| 6 | It took a little while to dispose of the competition . |