Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] a [adj] while " 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 good while asking for something written down so that I could see what I was and was n't supposed to do , but that was a forlorn hope . |
| 4 | ‘ I 've been on 10 or 11 tours in my career and it 's time that I spent a little while with my family . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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is the , the , the quality of some of our street light and equipment here and there throughout Suffolk is old or very out of date and even run down indicator procedure , so we have got a large real programme as well as repairing ones already there . |
| 7 | If I spend a good while looking at it and I ca n't find anything different can we , maybe we start doing some ringing ? |
| 8 | She woke a short while later under the impression that she 'd dropped off at a cocktail party . |
| 9 | However , I would suggest you wait a little while before making your final decision . |
| 10 | ‘ 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 . |
| 11 | You mention a little while ago . |
| 12 | Lunch might have been an unqualified disaster , she reflected a little while later , but dinner was proving less of an ordeal than anticipated . |
| 13 | She left a little while later , happier than she had been for a long time . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | During our journey we had been taken to Sherwood Forest , where we had a short while to look around and similarly at Chatsworth house . |
| 16 | They arrived a little while ago . |
| 17 | They returned a short while later stating that the sniper was dead . |
| 18 | They went a little while ago , apart from that they never came on this end |
| 19 | ‘ 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 . |
| 20 | ‘ I think it takes a long while for The Wedding Present to build up trust in someone . |
| 21 | but you know , it takes a long while to get over it |
| 22 | Sometimes it takes a little while to realize you really have lost interest in something , I said to him . |
| 23 | It takes a little while for an author to realize that his book has been a complete failure . |
| 24 | Ultimately one admires its naturalness , its ability simply to relay the balance and range that Rattle has fashioned from the podium ( or so it seems ) , but it takes a little while . |
| 25 | Cos the thing is as well , I might be inclined to get a two anyway , because she wants it to last a little while do n't she ? |
| 26 | he 's , he died a little while ago . |
| 27 | The above may be so , but it took a long while for anything significant to happen to the share price . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | And it took a long while for the letters to get there but he knew while he was on the boat that his wife was pregnant and er when he got here , she 'd it 'd been aborted . |
| 30 | It took a little while to dispose of the competition . |