Example sentences of "be [v-ing] for a while " in BNC.
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| 1 | Let us assume that agents have been flirting for a while with the use of the adaptive expectations mechanism but that , in the light of the persistent , systematic errors which this mechanism entails , they quickly abandon it . |
| 2 | ‘ I have been saving for a while now , ’ Yanto began , ‘ and by tonight I shall have a hundred and fifty . |
| 3 | They could get hot water , but only after the fire had been going for a while and the back boiler had heated up . |
| 4 | ‘ Can you leave what you are doing for a while ? ’ |
| 5 | Sorry , this will be printing for a while . |
| 6 | ‘ It 's because I have n't been winning for a while and I am desperate . |
| 7 | It 's not just that Mr Parnham knows the count , it 's an idea the old boy 's been floating for a while , so he tells me . |
| 8 | In a taped interview with Jill Jones , Head of Science in a comprehensive , which I shall quote from several times , I asked her , after she had been talking for a while about the frustrations , what made it all worthwhile . |
| 9 | Because we 've been talking for a while so had time for it to evaporate . |
| 10 | ‘ He was one of the students who rented the Pitt house in Church Street , they were missing for a while . |
| 11 | She 'd been digging for a while when she looked up to swing the stone in her hand on to the pile , and saw Clare standing there . |
| 12 | Many people find that they return to the same company over and over again , or take up a permanent job offer at a place they have been working for a while . |
| 13 | Your landlady said you was n't married , that you was waiting for a while . |
| 14 | I was teaching for a while , I did not miss many gigs , ’ he says . |