Example sentences of "be [adv] [art] [adj] while " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I have n't seen either of them but I 've only been back a little while , ’ replied Melissa . |
| 2 | ‘ We 've been out a long while already . |
| 3 | But ha I remember I was on my test and I pulled round er it was very , very busy and there were two rows of cars and I pulled up and I thought right there 's a gap down there and I want to go straight on and all these others were turning le turning right so I squeezed down through the gap and then I thought right I 'm gon na be here a little while shall I put it in neutral , blow no I wo n't . |
| 4 | ‘ You 've been here a long while , have n't you , Raech ? |
| 5 | Right very briefly , we 've been here a little while now , is erm we 're just gon na a little talk about the other aspects of what we call a defensive driving technique . |
| 6 | I 've only been here a little while , looking after Aunt — ’ |
| 7 | Well he 's been there a long while . |
| 8 | Once I had been there a little while I really settled in and really enjoyed my primary school days . |
| 9 | when he 's been there a little while perhaps he can come with all the authority of a Euro MP and tell us the answer to his own question er , the honourable member for Ashfield er referred back to the positioning of the European parliament er where it should meet , there are three sites . |
| 10 | " I 've only been upstairs a short while . " |
| 11 | Erm I I 'm speaking from recollection sir at having looked into this in the context of planning appeal which is now a little while ago , but it did strike me at the time that er there was a definite feeling that the agricultural issue was very strong protection of ag agricultural land throughout was a strong issue up to er the mid nineteen eighties and certainly was up to the time in late seventy nine early nineteen eighty and er therefore there was a feeling that Policy E three simply er was supplementary to those other policies . |
| 12 | So it 's quite a long while ago and I 've travelled round quite a bit since then . |
| 13 | My conversion to the Arctic was still a little while away . |
| 14 | ‘ Yes , he was here a little while ago . ’ |