Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] for a while " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the full force of the poison was staved off for a while . |
| 2 | I may have dozed off for a while . |
| 3 | Perhaps it is seeking to increase the audience , or perhaps it was lead astray for a while by the fact that , during the Conservative leadership contest , the exciting politics at Westminster were not in the Chamber . |
| 4 | Nanny and baby could both be accommodated there for a while . |
| 5 | The rain having petered out for a while , we all went out to stare at the sunset , about which the two poets made lurid remarks . |
| 6 | In Melbourne on the afternoon of 8 February , 1983 , the sky was completely blacked out for a while . |
| 7 | ‘ It 's been laid up for a while with a problem in the starting mechanism , but a friend is now completing a repair job for me , and we hope to be up and running again soon , ’ explained Gordon , pictured with the vehicle 's log-book . |
| 8 | ‘ He 's gone away for a while . ’ |
| 9 | The problem arose again thirty years later , when their energies were channelled off on a crusade which ended in defeat at Nicopolis in 1396 , and yet again in 1444–5 when , after the truce of Tours , the ‘ Ecorcheurs ’ who were , as their name implied , ‘ skinning ’ France , were led off for a while to Switzerland and the imperial lands . |
| 10 | who were the religious police who were actually watching , so we have n't gone back for a while |
| 11 | He 's gone out for a while . |
| 12 | When anything important happens you 're stunned , and thrown out for a while , and then you recover … |
| 13 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 14 | Yes , Devlin had worked there for a while , but he 'd left three days ago . |
| 15 | Pétain , he recommended , should now be put in command not only of the Left Bank , but of the Right Bank as well ; the ‘ fatigued ’ General Herr should be kept on for a while as Pétain 's adviser , then quietly ‘ limogé ’ . |
| 16 | They could get quite boisterous and reckless , especially during the early days , when they would be shut in for a while . |
| 17 | The Shell-owned Eider oil production platform , with 38 people on board , was shut down for a while . |
| 18 | Gundulph we know most certainly lived here for a while , for here he could retire with his household to live on tithes collected locally as the manor was allotted to supply his table " ad victum episcopi " as it was styled . |
| 19 | Knowing it impossible to sleep again , she had lain there for a while and listened to the silence of sleep throughout the house . |