Example sentences of "[prep] a long while " in BNC.
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| 1 | Anyway , nuffink 's gon na 'appen fer a long while yet so the owners are lettin' the place out fer rent . |
| 2 | Then after a long while , during which neither of us could escape from her hatred and savagery , she 'd said tiredly , ‘ OK , Annie , we ca n't do it . |
| 3 | After a long while she belched several times , then said , ‘ Maybe I 'll be more resistant now . |
| 4 | After a long while of keeping the pendant hidden and unlooked at in his sock drawer , Thomas had to bring himself to hunt for someone to buy it back , for he could n't afford both presents . |
| 5 | We 're all called to understand ourselves , and to do this it 's necessary that we should understand one another , and this is only possible after a long while of living together . |
| 6 | After a long while muffled sounds came from above . |
| 7 | After a long while in which she heard nothing but the rasp of charcoal on canvas and the faint distant booming of the sea , he said , ‘ Talk if you want to . |
| 8 | After a long while Alan opened the door a crack . |
| 9 | After a long while the human put the paper down and reached over to the desk by its side . |
| 10 | After a long while , watching the attack and listening to the screeching wood , Tallis had had enough . |
| 11 | After a long while , he smiled against her mouth , then drew back just enough so he was looking into her eyes . |
| 12 | After a long while of silence he unlocked his arms from her . |
| 13 | Yet there are also brief moments of recovery , moments of gratified desire and a coming to life : ‘ on this abandoned divan , I shall inhale for a long while still the earthy , vegetal smell which the faun left behind ; then , in the morning , wakened at dawn , I shall fling myself into the delicious air ’ ( p. 104 ) . |
| 14 | We were carrying light loads because it was our last day but we averaged about 25kph with ease , and for a long while . |
| 15 | ‘ But they say he must n't go home and live on his own , not for a long while at any rate . ’ |
| 16 | Others had been saying that nobody wore the Party badge any longer in Munich and that ‘ for a long while not a single person had believed anything the Führer had said ’ . |
| 17 | have hunted , slain and carried away deer , hares , coneys , pheasants and partridges … threatening the King 's officers in life and limb , so that they … for a long while have not dared openly to pass and do their business there . |
| 18 | It was the funniest sight I 've seen for a long while , but hardly fair on the birds … . |
| 19 | These articles are addressed to practitioners and for a long while I have been urging practitioners towards a greater involvement in the education of the profession 's next generation . |
| 20 | Indeed , for a long while the possession of a domestic clock or a watch tended to be restricted to the wealthy and was looked upon more as a sign of affluence than as a social necessity . |
| 21 | This core of lava may continue to flow for a long while , but when the supply of fresh lava slows down at source , there will not be enough coming through to fill the whole volume of the core , so an empty space will be left , and this will form a long tube or tunnel running along the centre of the flow , sometimes for many kilometres . |
| 22 | In general the obsidian forms only on the outer skin of the lava , which is rapidly chilled , while the central parts of the flow , which remain hot for a long while , consist of rhyolite . |
| 23 | I 'd been wanting to break a board over my head for a long while . |
| 24 | The British White , largely on the basis of its coat pattern , was for a long while considered to be merely a polled variety of the White Park and , of course , there was some interbreeding . |
| 25 | If things keep as they 're going now and she gets the services she 's getting I 've no grumbles , she 'll stop for a long while . |
| 26 | Father Poole stared at him for a long while . |
| 27 | For a long while , Dave was second only to Johnny Byrne among our post-war goalscorers though , of course , all but a handful of ‘ Budgie 's ’ goals were scored in the lower divisions . |
| 28 | I had not realized how close they had been but she grieved for a long while for the grandmother to whom she had felt close and in whom she had found it easy to confide . |
| 29 | And their arousal is so intense that if the owl finally departs they will still go on mobbing for a long while afterwards , as though they can not calm down to a normal level of activity until some considerable time has passed . |
| 30 | For the first time for a long while , Corbett felt wanted and warmed to these simple yet sophisticated men so bound up in their own routine of prayer , work and study that they regarded any visitor as a visible sign of God 's grace . |