Sentence examples for i stood for a while from inspiring English sources

I stood for a while, wondering whether I should signal to him that I was there.

I stood for a while and since I was not affected -- just some ringing in my hears -- slowly went home.

I stood for a while, trying to fathom the rules of the most popular game on the floor, a Chinese game of chance called Dai Siu (Big-Small).

I stood for a while enjoying the sun and the quiet but the dark cloud moving in from the south-west suggested that I had chosen the right day to celebrate summer's end.

I stood for a while, listening to their chants: "If the people decide one day to choose life/then fate must heed their call"; "Ali, enough, enough/Leave, let yourself out"; and, when a police car passed by, "The army, the police and we/are all connected by our need for daily bread".

"I knew the record had stood for a while.

Further into the store during that first visit, the information clerk kept staring at a computer print-out while I stood for 10 minutes trying to ask a question.

I stood watching for a while, not knowing a single face.

After I stood there for a while he let me have a few shovels.

I stood there for a while, tracing the path of a low-flying plane, when I received a text message from my daughter, Jesse.

I had never been pitched a timeshare before, and I stood there for a while wondering what she was selling me, because she never quite said it.