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Example sentences for "while back"

  • He war dahnstairs a while back, for I met him as I war coming in here.

  • Th' Maister promised I should, for I axed him a while back; so ye needn't fash yourseln about that, Maister.

  • Hiram let him move a little away; then, "Didst see Red Ratcliffe go riding by to Wildwater a while back?

  • They signalled us from above a while back, but they've stopped again.

  • It sat on high ground, while back of it rose a cliff; so 'at the only way you could get to it without ropes from the back, was through the little ravine.

  • I used to drive a car a while back," said the tramp.

  • I will: I'll give it the one you gave it a while back.

  • I got a case of cold feet when we had that little let-up a while back, and when the market opened I cleaned up and sent the sure-enough little round dollars home to Ohio.

  • That was a mere nursery notion I gave you a while back--about picking up homesteads and town sites in the Buckskin.

  • When I seen her a while back, she was out there wid the childer, discoorsin' to Terence Kilfoyle," Andy said contentedly.

  • They supposed she was took up wid lookin' after her mother, who wasn't gettin' her health over well this good while back.

  • Just a while back, my young daughter was in sobs, and I coaxed her out here to amuse her.

  • This Hsüeh family, just a while back spoken of, how could your worship presume to provoke?

  • I bought them a while back at a desolate, God-forsaken farmhouse.

  • Nor shall I trust to drunken jailers as I did a while back with a certain compatriot of yours.

  • You mentioned the name of Nick Undrell a while back.

  • He's bin owin' me a grudge for a while back.

  • I was a year in San Francisco a while back, and it was one lonesome year, believe me.

  • They lost a boy in that tide-marsh a while back.

  • Never seen the inside of a school in my born days till we come up here a while back, me an' little Madge.

  • My Bob met him on the street a while back; an' jest like boys, they had words that led to blows.

  • The work of that treacherous lascar I knocked down a while back.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    accounted worthy; deep mourning; direct popular; draw near; great multitude; had two; limited number; never used; went thither; while above; while after; while back; while every; while from; while his; while living; while lying; while many; while others; while she; while since; while sitting; while still; while that; while their; while warm