Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] for [art] while " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once seed heads/leaves change colour remove and hang upside down for a while ensuring the tips preserve too . |
| 2 | Well no you 'd be amazed what they do , if you leave Blu Blu- tac up for a while how it actually takes |
| 3 | When Constance had gone to bed that night , Louise made her suggestion that Nora leave the girl behind for a while longer . |
| 4 | After selling security equipment there for a while , he went to New Zealand , and there made his first bungee dive off a high bridge . |
| 5 | Yeah but he did go out with a girl there for a while did n't he ? |
| 6 | I take on board everything that Lesley said , but I still feel in my heart that there are times when you 're dealing with people who just need to be treated almost like a child again for a while and maybe maybe it 's a good place where the legislation leaves it , better than going to a sort of situation where healthy people might get pushed into asylums or whatever , but somehow I 'm not totally happy with where we are . |
| 7 | It sat in my wardrobe malevolently for a while until , out of sheer defiance , I grew two inches in as many months and in most directions . |
| 8 | As to a scoop , just hold the article back for a while and I think you 'll have one . |
| 9 | I 'm a bit tired , to be honest ; I 'm going to get my head down for a while . |
| 10 | He looked at the back of his head carefully for a while before speaking again . |
| 11 | They carried timber together for a while after that , one at each end of the planks , eyeing each other with set little smiles . |
| 12 | And put your turkey mug away for a while . |
| 13 | The effect of having a baby had also put some of them off sex altogether for a while , which is something that also happens to older mothers . |
| 14 | You know nothing of me , only that we went to bed together for a while . |
| 15 | But then she got married and we lived down the road there for a while till they repaired these , they made these There was very old houses these are . |
| 16 | ‘ We were trying to keep the Maharajah in for a while . |
| 17 | Put this list away for a while and then look at it again a few days later — are your reasons still the same ? |
| 18 | I had to put the project aside for a while , he wrote , as the rent had to be paid , not to speak of alimony , school fees and the rest , and , coming back to it after a considerable period , much longer , unfortunately , than I had anticipated , and I will not even try to apologize since you gave me a completely free hand — anyway , he wrote , trying to ignore the damp spots left on the page of his pad by his sweaty hands , anyway , coming back to it after all that time I realized that it would be quite impossible in practice to separate the valuable and the worthless , the public and the private , and that , in a sense , one would have to think in terms of either publishing the whole thing exactly as it stood , or not doing it at all . |
| 19 | If you leave a sandpit or pool out for a while , the grass underneath will die . |
| 20 | Others tell us Apple 's Enterprise people have been shopping the thing around for a while apparently to further insinuate the Mac into the corporate environment . |
| 21 | I do n't know where , I thought I left my case here , I do n't know what I 've done with my case that 's all , it 's probably downstairs oh oh I do n't know , mm still not able to find it I think I 'd better put these plants out mm that 's right , oh , mm that 's not there right , I 'd better switch this , the tape off cos there 's not much , be much conversation now for a while |
| 22 | I know , I went through a period of a very much milder popularity in the United States in the seventies , nothing like what Neville has enjoyed or has been squashed by , which maybe is lucky for me , but the idea was that erm Rolling Stone , when I was doing it , became very heavily innovative and there was like countless magazines , you know weekly newspapers in different cities , sections of dailies , everything , that started looking like Rolling Stone there for a while . |
| 23 | In extreme circumstances borrowers might be allowed to pay interest only for a while . |