Example sentences of "have [vb pp] a [adj] while " in BNC.
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1 | So it must have taken a long while ? |
2 | The rain had stopped a short while ago and once more the sun was burning up the atmosphere . |
3 | But for those who could receive a smattering of instruction at home , or who had spent a short while at day schools in their infancy , they may well have nourished a plant that might otherwise have ceased to grow , or even withered . |
4 | It had taken a long while , Harry thought as he glanced fondly at Cora-Beth , before he had got over Madeleine 's rejection of him and the shock of her marriage to Dunbar . |
5 | I 've waited a long while for this . ’ |
6 | ‘ How old 's Gary ? ’ asked Clare , after the silence had lasted a little while . |