Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] a while " in BNC.
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| 1 | He felt mercifully isolated and stopped for a while to lean back on the lower bank of fell . |
| 2 | I was n't going to court to get the order reduced , just stopped for a while until I get a job . |
| 3 | The Council became a genuinely learning process , and once the name of the game had been defined as aggiornamento , once ecumenical understanding and co-operation with other Christians had been moved from the presupposition of ‘ dangerous ’ to that of ‘ Christian ’ and ‘ highly desirable ’ , there developed for a while a new logic which could not easily be denied . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The cottage had not been inhabited for a while . |
| 7 | The ground was comparatively dry , and she guessed the sea would be checked for a while by the dunes ; but not for long . |
| 8 | He seems to have taught for a while , but already politics called him , and with his father 's support he took ship for France . |
| 9 | While the Roman law had perhaps never died out in the north Italian cities and was studied in the early eleventh century at Pavia , where the great lawyer , Lanfranc , archbishop of Canterbury under William the Conqueror , taught for a while , an interest in the texts of Justinian was not widely aroused until the discovery of a manuscript of the Digest in c. 1070 . |
| 10 | Landing with obstructions on the upwind side is particularly dangerous and is just the sort of error people tend to make when they have n't flown for a while . |
| 11 | No more was heard for a while about how the Masai were straining to get at the Kikuyu . |
| 12 | ‘ In Swansea , I heard a chant I had n't heard for a while : ‘ Who beat the Wallabies ? ’ |
| 13 | right , I mean I 'm not quite sure how Coslow will go about things , I mean the reason we wanted someone from Coslow is cos we wanted someone from the Federation of Scottish Theatre cos we had n't heard for a while |
| 14 | But this merely delayed for a while the inevitable . |
| 15 | Gorelli , he 'd won for a while , but now he was losing , and he was losing big . |
| 16 | If other people in your household smoke , try to persuade them to give up , or to smoke in the garden shed for a while . |
| 17 | Even the Clunbury Coach was forgotten for a while whilst the gems of Midland heritage were admired . |
| 18 | But it was in New Orleans , when the alcoholic fog lifted for a while , that he wrote eleven hundred pages in a four-month period ending in early 1987 . |
| 19 | Easter is with us and it is good to be reminded for a while about the eternal religious traditions , such as a really stupid controversy . |
| 20 | This restriction was lifted after a while , and now I can wear jeans again . |
| 21 | CINEMA outside Hollywood used to come in national waves , but no longer : China has been silenced for a while , and the work emerging out of Africa has been distributed too sporadically to seem like a movement . |
| 22 | Lynn sat slumped for a while in catatonic gloom , scratching bubo-like mosquito bites and reading about foreign horrors in an Amnesty International magazine , and then she too turned in . |
| 23 | I had had ten for a meal about two weeks ago , so that is my entertaining DONE for a while ! ! ! |
| 24 | No , I have n't done for a while see I |
| 25 | Several of the changes Mr Major announced will not come in until next year , and their effects will hardly be noticed for a while after that . |
| 26 | The two of them dated for a while , but it did n't work out . |
| 27 | A baby would get born and an upstairs window be lit at night : an old man would die and the hearse arrive , and a gap be felt for a while , but the very pressure of ordinariness , or whatever it was , soon healed it up . |
| 28 | Despite the vehement opposition to the passage of the Act by the tuna industry , steady progress was being made for a while by the US tuna fleet to reduce dolphin kills , until the election of ex-Californian governor Ronald Reagan as US President . |
| 29 | Because it was the women themselves who were organizing it because they felt part of it they did n't see it as some sort of other people that were more politically motivated that than them giving them something to keep them out on strike , which by its very nature could could have been something that the people would have accepted for a while and then not accepted . |
| 30 | 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 . |