Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] a [adj] while [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | and what we 've got to do is er er as I said to Ed a little while ago , I mentioned a little while ago , we need to gather the other thin section |
| 2 | Well I know a long while ago |
| 3 | I spent a little while there and enjoyed a helicopter trip for the very first time , although not without considerable trepidation having once or twice seen pictures of them whizzing down to the ground in pieces . |
| 4 | But it is n't easy we have a lot , what complaints we get bearing in mind what I said a short while ago , what complaints we get now are very much biased towards defects in street lighting systems provided currently here and there in Suffolk , so I 'm conscious of this , we are working with the Eastern Electricity Board on an improved maintenance contract whereby certain benefits , and one of them is immediacy of response to repair work will be I hope put forward , very conscious of it indeed so and er we are struggling with what the , the basic cause of it all of course is the , the , the quality of some of our street light and equipment here and there throughout Suffolk is old or very out of date and even run down indicator procedure , so we have got a large real programme as well as repairing ones already there . |
| 5 | She woke a short while later under the impression that she 'd dropped off at a cocktail party . |
| 6 | ‘ As you know a little while ago there were discussions between this Office and Stephenson Harwood [ the applicant 's former solicitors ] about a proposed interview to be conducted under the terms of section 2 of the Criminal Justice Act 1987 and I promised to provide further details to them of our proposed course of action which is now given to you instead of them : ( 1 ) This Office intends to hold an interview with you under section 2 on Thursday , 13 June 1991 . |
| 7 | You mention a little while ago . |
| 8 | Lunch might have been an unqualified disaster , she reflected a little while later , but dinner was proving less of an ordeal than anticipated . |
| 9 | She left a little while later , happier than she had been for a long time . |
| 10 | They arrived a little while ago . |
| 11 | They returned a short while later stating that the sniper was dead . |
| 12 | They went a little while ago , apart from that they never came on this end |
| 13 | ‘ Enjoy that , did you ? ’ he drawled a little while later , reappearing with a plate piled high with soft sponge and cream and two glasses that overflowed with bubbling champagne . |
| 14 | he 's , he died a little while ago . |