Example sentences of "for a while to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps her mother would agree to her returning for a while to Framlingham … |
| 2 | George Burley presently came into the dining car and spoke for a while to Nell , who subsequently went from table to table , clipboard in place , repeating what he 'd said . |
| 3 | Perhaps just for a while to tide you over a particularly bad crop of bills . |
| 4 | Let us , however , confine our attention for a while to Polybius who was a specialist in constitutional and military history and who for four centuries conditioned modern thinking about Republican Rome . |
| 5 | The problem arose again thirty years later , when their energies were channelled off on a crusade which ended in defeat at Nicopolis in 1396 , and yet again in 1444–5 when , after the truce of Tours , the ‘ Ecorcheurs ’ who were , as their name implied , ‘ skinning ’ France , were led off for a while to Switzerland and the imperial lands . |
| 6 | The route follows the B3004 for a while to East Worldham , turning right along a minor road and bearing left to head up through Monk Wood and on to Alton where it ends at the railway station . |