Example sentences of "[vb past] for [art] [adj] while " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yeah , oh cos that 's when she said Frank , Frank only came for a short while or something ? |
| 2 | It played for a little while , I did n't play it for long but it did play . |
| 3 | My main aim was for some relief to the back pain that I had had for many years but , having tried many other so-called ‘ back pain relief techniques ’ , without much success ( some worked for a short while , others not at all or even made the pain worse ) , I was not too optimistic . |
| 4 | After that result he disappeared for a short while , but he returned in time to be included in Wilson 's government , initially as Secretary of State for Economic Affairs , a post he held between 1964 and 1966 . |
| 5 | At one school I attended for a short while , very much for ‘ young ladies ’ , the headmistress descended unexpectedly on a class , with a visitor , and found it in uproar . |
| 6 | And I knew for a little while that would be true . |
| 7 | She lay for a long while , the tears falling . |
| 8 | Julia thought for a little while and then produced one word : |
| 9 | Holmes thought for a little while . |
| 10 | Isambard had halted and turned in the passage , frowning a little , in two minds whether to go back to him , but in the end he did not ; he merely waited for a little while , listening until the torrent of defiance had grown strangely shaken and softened with moments of entreaty . |
| 11 | I had not realized how close they had been but she grieved for a long while for the grandmother to whom she had felt close and in whom she had found it easy to confide . |
| 12 | I stood for a long while looking at Voting Right . |
| 13 | I sat for a long while , clutching the unfinished poem , gazing beyond it . |
| 14 | She sat for a long while , until her limbs became cold and stiff and her mind numb with tiredness and misery . |