Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv] a while " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it took her it used to take her quite a while I suppose it would take couple of hours to make a bonny wreath would it . |
| 2 | He 's been going with her quite a while , though has he ? |
| 3 | It takes me quite a while to go through them cos I check every one careful like . |
| 4 | It has taken me quite a while to be able to do that . |
| 5 | Once I had learnt to ride , the trick of balancing took me quite a while , that bike , over the next four years gave me enormous pleasure . |
| 6 | It took me quite a while to rebuild my confidence . |
| 7 | To tell the truth , it took me quite a while to realize that the pitiable chirruping I heard all about me was , in fact , human speech . |
| 8 | It took me quite a while to convince him that my being with you was because I was trying to persuade you to — ’ |
| 9 | It 's taken me quite a while to come up with this team and i 'm sure i 've missed some absolute wankers out , but here goes . |
| 10 | It took me quite a while to cope with the shock . ’ |
| 11 | Well , erm , of course it took them quite a while that the people |
| 12 | I , I made them I started making them quite a while ago . |
| 13 | Erm y'know even if it takes them quite a while to fill out y'know go through all eighty items y'know which could be erm y'know kind of , well depending how quickly they work y'know , sort of half an hour or something but if you if you get some er er a sort of type-written draft run off um I du n no , next Tuesday 's quite a quite a short deadline but maybe the Tuesday after that er we can try them on the first years if you like ? |
| 14 | ‘ It took us quite a while to persuade other people just how much tennis in general could benefit , especially in those countries where Government grants are dependent on Olympic membership , if tennis was once again a member of the Olympic family . |