Example sentences of "a while [v-ing] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was a relief to Watt who had been in Cornwall for a while supervising the engine business there . |
| 2 | I sat for a while watching the scenery slide by , wild uninhabited stretches of green and autumn-blazing trees , grey rocks and blue lakes punctuated by tiny hamlets and lonely houses , all vivid in the afternoon sunshine , a panoramic impression of the vastness of Canada and the smallness of her population . |
| 3 | They stood beneath the trees for a while watching the game . |
| 4 | She went back into the house and I waited outside for a while enjoying the cool breeze . |
| 5 | I sat for a while holding the baby under my hands . |
| 6 | They were still talking when I continued on my way back to my roomette where I sat in comfortable privacy for a while reading the timetable and also reflecting that although I still had no answers to the old questions , I now had a whole crop of new ones , the most urgent being whether or not Filmer had already known the Youngs were friends of Ezra Gideon . |
| 7 | The friar sat for a while admiring the beauty of St John 's Chapel , comparing it to the grimness of St Erconwald 's . |
| 8 | Hitler was never again to be at the centre of public attention as he was for a while following the plot of 20 July 1944 . |
| 9 | Once seed heads/leaves change colour remove and hang upside down for a while ensuring the tips preserve too . |