Example sentences of "have [vb pp] for a while " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gorelli , he 'd won for a while , but now he was losing , and he was losing big . |
| 2 | ‘ Until the blunders it was one of the best games I 'd seen for a while . ’ |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Because it was the women themselves who were organizing it because they felt part of it they did n't see it as some sort of other people that were more politically motivated that than them giving them something to keep them out on strike , which by its very nature could could have been something that the people would have accepted for a while and then not accepted . |
| 5 | He seems to have taught for a while , but already politics called him , and with his father 's support he took ship for France . |
| 6 | ‘ It was a real old-fashioned adventure and one of the best films I 've seen for a while . ’ |
| 7 | Then he would qualify these certainties at the end , once the client had agreed to buy with something like : " of course , you 'll appreciate that , as with any shares , I can make no absolute guarantees , but this is the best opportunity I 've seen for a while . " |
| 8 | He had suspected for a while that Nancy had become tired of Bill Sikes ' brutality and violence , and that she had found a new friend to take his place . |
| 9 | They had talked for a while then he had given Green a lift back to his hotel . |
| 10 | that we 've had for a while . |
| 11 | My contact with the family had lapsed for a while when the head asked to see me to request help in explaining the Statementing procedures to Mrs Singh . |
| 12 | Mills was amoral and untrustworthy , but we 've known for a while now that he definitely worked for us . ’ |
| 13 | After they had driven for a while , Edward said : ‘ Are n't we involved at all now ? |
| 14 | It had appeared for a while that Coronation Street 's rival EastEnders , boosted by a weekend omnibus , would oust it from top spot in the ratings . |
| 15 | She had hoped for a while that Seth could straighten Joey out . |
| 16 | De Gaulle reacted like a sullen schoolboy ; the august professor had gone for a while . |
| 17 | JACK Dee had tried for a while to make people laugh with a totally put-on chirpy delivery . |
| 18 | I started skating with a couple of guys called Sam and Luke who had skated for a while in London . |
| 19 | They had lived for a while in holes cut in the turf banks . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 ? |
| 22 | The gastropodic semi-automaton moved over reverentially to polish the section of ancient riveted floor where the two Marines had stood for a while . |