Example sentences of "was [verb] for a while " in BNC.
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| 1 | No more was heard for a while about how the Masai were straining to get at the Kikuyu . |
| 2 | What is more difficult to establish is whether the first building was inhabited for a while , demolished just after the inhabitants moved out , immediately paved over , and a new building later constructed ; or whether the first building was inhabited for a while , abandoned by its inhabitants for many years , then collapsed through decay , was paved over later on , and then a second building constructed . |
| 3 | What is more difficult to establish is whether the first building was inhabited for a while , demolished just after the inhabitants moved out , immediately paved over , and a new building later constructed ; or whether the first building was inhabited for a while , abandoned by its inhabitants for many years , then collapsed through decay , was paved over later on , and then a second building constructed . |
| 4 | Even the Clunbury Coach was forgotten for a while whilst the gems of Midland heritage were admired . |
| 5 | This relief , it may be added , was matched for a while by the exemption of some forty villages in the West Riding in 1319 , and of 128 villages in the North Riding in 1322 , from lay taxes because of the scale of their poverty resulting from the Scottish raids . |
| 6 | Nothing was said for a while and then Maidstone straightened himself up . |
| 7 | The library was closed for a while and Mr Slipper , the Headmaster and Mr Crangle had a private viewing of the Bookman . |
| 8 | The road was closed for a while because of a dangerous street light . |
| 9 | But he soon became convinced that the herpes virus , which was thought for a while to be associated with cancer , had in reality nothing to do with the disease . |
| 10 | Your landlady said you was n't married , that you was waiting for a while . |
| 11 | Hsu himself grew up in eastern China but his account is evidently a syncretic blend of what he learned as a child from personal experience and what he learned as an adult , several thousand miles away to the west , during fourteen months ' fieldwork in the Yunnanese city of Tali-fu , where he was employed for a while as a teacher in a local missionary college . |
| 12 | I was teaching for a while , I did not miss many gigs , ’ he says . |
| 13 | Fortunately I had taken my camera-bag with me , so fishing was abandoned for a while as I attempted to take pictures of moving birds from a moving boat ! |
| 14 | Preston sought anaesthesis in the colour supplement he had brought with him and was distracted for a while by a feature on Great Journeys undertaken or contemplated by the Rich and the Famous . |
| 15 | Their Rolls Royce image was dented for a while by accusations of unethical behaviour in raiding from clients , but was restored once the business had expanded into other sectors and gained a name as a generalist . |
| 16 | So I was particularly pleased to find at one point , when I 'd indulged in a lengthy photo session , that the rest of the party had gone over the brow and out of sight and I was left for a while with the world to myself . |
| 17 | ‘ It was lost for a while . ’ |