Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] a while " in BNC.
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| 1 | I joined a while ago remember . |
| 2 | I spent a while some years ago just improving my chordal knowledge ; I just sat down and learned it , because I was playing with players who were a lot more advanced than I was , and because I was doing a lot of sessions and stuff . |
| 3 | I heard a while ago on the radio , that they were gon na put it up to eighty four fifty . |
| 4 | I waited a while , hidden in the shadows , watching the convent settle for the night . |
| 5 | And in the welcome silence I pondered a while . |
| 6 | ‘ I think I 'd rather you lingered a while yet . |
| 7 | Predictably , you seem to be getting all the flak for the Bill Davis/Alan Coren years of stagnation and complacency that led to the Punch you inherited a while back . |
| 8 | Disorientated , she took a while to realise where she was . |
| 9 | Tell him … ’ she thought a while , ‘ tell him Sycorax is dying . ’ |
| 10 | When her husband rose she lay a while , dreaming . |
| 11 | You know the Goths and Vandals you had a while back. ? |
| 12 | ‘ No ; but … but I guessed something like that had happened from what you said a while back . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ Would you mind explaining something you said a while back ? ’ |
| 14 | Going out through a side door , she stood a while in the courtyard . |
| 15 | She stood a while , intently regarding him , her hand steadying the portmanteau on the bed , and only the merest glimmer of guilt colouring her face . |
| 16 | I would be honoured if you sat a while with us and shared the ch ‘ a . ‘ |
| 17 | The two of them spent a while together , in a flat in Glasgow , but they did n't marry . |
| 18 | Tony brings me a cup of coffee and tells me that the tracks we crossed a while back were , Odd-Knut says , jarv or wolverine . |
| 19 | We chattered a while and Benjamin was on the point of leaving when the Queen stepped forward . |
| 20 | We stayed a while longer before returning to our house in Clerkenwell . ’ |
| 21 | They talked a while longer but Doris Clay could do no better . |
| 22 | They talked a while and finally must have settled it . |
| 23 | They watched a while , till the Space Marine asked , ‘ Can mind and will move the bare bones now that the muscles are gone ? |
| 24 | They paused a while to let a fleet of barges , packed with city dignitaries , sweep by as stately as swans . |
| 25 | He rested a while on the oil-film |
| 26 | He ruminated a while longer . |
| 27 | He died a while back , not long before I left Briar Cottage . ’ |
| 28 | It took a while before they finally trusted me with a little cooking . |
| 29 | It took a while to sink in . ’ |
| 30 | It took a while to establish himself back in the team as his form was poor and he was not originally selected for the visit of the Australians in 1972–3 . |