Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [adv] for [art] while " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I took a plumbers apprenticeship when I left school , ’ he said , ‘ But after I 'd worked here for a while , I decided to stay on full time . ’ |
| 2 | They therefore decided to break up for a while because , Dustin said , ‘ I wanted my fling . |
| 3 | He did move away for a while er and had er workrooms away from the , from the house and I just ran the , the shop . |
| 4 | But again she smiled and she shook her head , saying that she preferred to stay here for a while and … just think about things . |
| 5 | Dosh — I was pretty sure it was Dosh — and I danced some and she finished off the Kümmel , which meant we then had to sit down for a while near the window , where some scatter cushions had been laid . |
| 6 | so we had to sit down for a while . |
| 7 | Marie 's parents had strong religious views that made her feel very guilty about having sex in their home when she and her husband had to live there for a while : " We did it on the bedroom floor on the wedding night because I would n't use the bed , in case it made a noise . |
| 8 | Yes , Devlin had worked there for a while , but he 'd left three days ago . |
| 9 | Knowing it impossible to sleep again , she had lain there for a while and listened to the silence of sleep throughout the house . |
| 10 | He went over to the window of the post-operation side-ward I was occupying alone and stood looking out for a while , then he turned and said , ‘ Something awful happened yesterday . ’ |