Example sentences of "had [verb] for a while " in BNC.
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| 1 | He reached it without mishap but had to wait for a while , watching the day begin , until the ferrymaster arrived . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | They had talked for a while then he had given Green a lift back to his hotel . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | After they had driven for a while , Edward said : ‘ Are n't we involved at all now ? |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | She had hoped for a while that Seth could straighten Joey out . |
| 8 | De Gaulle reacted like a sullen schoolboy ; the august professor had gone for a while . |
| 9 | JACK Dee had tried for a while to make people laugh with a totally put-on chirpy delivery . |
| 10 | The others took it up , humming or singing , and walked in time to it until old Donald got breathless and they had to saunter for a while . |
| 11 | I started skating with a couple of guys called Sam and Luke who had skated for a while in London . |
| 12 | They had lived for a while in holes cut in the turf banks . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 ? |
| 15 | The gastropodic semi-automaton moved over reverentially to polish the section of ancient riveted floor where the two Marines had stood for a while . |