Example sentences of "[vb pp] for a while [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The ground was comparatively dry , and she guessed the sea would be checked for a while by the dunes ; but not for long . |
| 2 | No more was heard for a while about how the Masai were straining to get at the Kikuyu . |
| 3 | Easter is with us and it is good to be reminded for a while about the eternal religious traditions , such as a really stupid controversy . |
| 4 | Lynn sat slumped for a while in catatonic gloom , scratching bubo-like mosquito bites and reading about foreign horrors in an Amnesty International magazine , and then she too turned in . |
| 5 | Several of the changes Mr Major announced will not come in until next year , and their effects will hardly be noticed for a while after that . |
| 6 | Despite the vehement opposition to the passage of the Act by the tuna industry , steady progress was being made for a while by the US tuna fleet to reduce dolphin kills , until the election of ex-Californian governor Ronald Reagan as US President . |
| 7 | This relief , it may be added , was matched for a while by the exemption of some forty villages in the West Riding in 1319 , and of 128 villages in the North Riding in 1322 , from lay taxes because of the scale of their poverty resulting from the Scottish raids . |
| 8 | But he soon became convinced that the herpes virus , which was thought for a while to be associated with cancer , had in reality nothing to do with the disease . |
| 9 | Hsu himself grew up in eastern China but his account is evidently a syncretic blend of what he learned as a child from personal experience and what he learned as an adult , several thousand miles away to the west , during fourteen months ' fieldwork in the Yunnanese city of Tali-fu , where he was employed for a while as a teacher in a local missionary college . |
| 10 | I accepted his just criticism in the manner of Shostakovich , and concentrated for a while on eating . |
| 11 | Preston sought anaesthesis in the colour supplement he had brought with him and was distracted for a while by a feature on Great Journeys undertaken or contemplated by the Rich and the Famous . |
| 12 | Their Rolls Royce image was dented for a while by accusations of unethical behaviour in raiding from clients , but was restored once the business had expanded into other sectors and gained a name as a generalist . |
| 13 | If my memory serves me correctly , he had also worked for a while in the office of a chartered accountant , but to no avail . |
| 14 | I started skating with a couple of guys called Sam and Luke who had skated for a while in London . |
| 15 | Time ceased for a while for them as they kissed and held each other . |
| 16 | So I was particularly pleased to find at one point , when I 'd indulged in a lengthy photo session , that the rest of the party had gone over the brow and out of sight and I was left for a while with the world to myself . |
| 17 | He met up again with Shankar , who was then a visiting professor at the City College in New York , and studied for a while with Alla Rakha . |
| 18 | They had lived for a while in holes cut in the turf banks . |
| 19 | Styling himself ‘ Dr. Isaac Titford ’ , he had been commissioned surgeon ( not by any means so prestigious a profession then as now ) in the first battalion , Sixtieth Royal American Regiment , and had lived for a while in Virginia ; he was also giving his enterprising spirit full reign out there in the West Indies , fathering the odd quadroon or two , dabbling in the slave trade , a postmaster at Spanish Town , a partner in a firm of druggists in Kingston and the owner of a coffee and pimento plantation . |
| 20 | They had been driving through Wales , to the sea , and Carrie had turned off the main road into a narrow valley and said , this was where she and Uncle Nick had lived for a while in the war , would they like to stop the night and see ? |
| 21 | He was even engaged for a while to Little House on the Prairie star Melissa Gilbert , but she ditched him and married New York actor Bo Brinkman instead . |
| 22 | By its very nature , the organic content in a fertile soil constitutes a reservoir , a bank balance that will stand withdrawals for some time with little or nothing going in , which explains why fertility can often be maintained for a while by replacing lost nutrients with straight chemicals . |
| 23 | We were told not to do this , told not to come here , told to sledge and throw snowballs and make snowmen all we wanted , but not even to come near the loch and the river , in case we fell through the ice ; and yet Andy came here after we 'd sledged for a while on the slope near the farm , walked down here through the woods despite my protests , and then when we got here to the river bank I said well , as long as we only looked , but then Andy just whooped and jumped down onto the boulder-lumped white slope of shore and sprinted out across the pure flat snow towards the far bank . |