Example sentences of "we [verb] for [art] while " in BNC.
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| 1 | We concentrate for a while on I , the principle of induction . |
| 2 | We stopped for a while and , leaving Billy well secured outside with Pat , took our headlamps and torches and walked into the level . |
| 3 | I hid her precious sleeping pills for two days till she signed the form , and we ate for a while . |
| 4 | We rested for a while at Bleaberry Tarn which turned out to be a wise move . |
| 5 | We talked for a while about the hunt — she wanted to know how much meat we 'd eaten , what the men had talked about — and then she said she had to go and graze the cows . |
| 6 | We talked for a while in English , grateful for the ease of communication . |
| 7 | We talked for a while , catching up on our movements since we 'd last been neighbours six months earlier , in November . |
| 8 | We talked for a while , and then my parents , surprisingly tactfully , murmured things about shopping and left me and Anna sitting at the little round table , under the blue umbrella . |
| 9 | ‘ And we talked for a while . ’ |
| 10 | We chatted for a while about the trials and tribulations of being a stately home owner , and there are plenty of headaches I will admit , but I get headaches and nothing else — prices going up , wages going up , everybody wanting their ten per cent , she said . |
| 11 | If I did manage to get the rubber disc in now , but then he arrived an hour or two late , and then we went out for a romantic candle-lit dinner , and then we chatted for a while … the spermicide would have decided to cease hostilities at just about the time I needed it to be at its most fierce . |
| 12 | We waited for a while as he shovelled coal and filled his boilers . |
| 13 | It was just a bedsit she had early in our marriage when we parted for a while . |
| 14 | We stayed for a while to chat and told him how great we thought New Zealand was . |
| 15 | We sat for a while , saying little , until I started into a description of Changez 's ‘ specials ’ , his camp-bed and the bizarre spectacle of a man falling in love with his wife . |
| 16 | We sat for a while just watching and listening to the water and turned back to follow the path out of the steep-sided gill towards Cotterdale . |
| 17 | We sat for a while by the cairn in the hot sun looking out before us , the only noise being the sound of the beck behind us falling over boulders and down towards Brackens Gill and the Dee . |
| 18 | We sat for a while in the sitting-room over coffee . |