Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] a [adj] while " in BNC.
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| 31 | Again it took a little while for them to calm down and when they had , Bartlemas , with mock solemnity , handed the envelope to Jacqui . |
| 32 | His proud father , also called Thomas , said today : ‘ It took a little while for us to realise what he had done . |
| 33 | He waited a long while , looking out all the time for Caspar . |
| 34 | A recent anthology on spirituality has a quotation by Martin Buber from Rabbi Zusya when he said a short while before his death , " In the world to come I shall not be asked why were you not Moses ? |