To listen to you," said I, when he paused for breath, "one would think you were a devil of a fellow.
He paused for a moment, then added, "But between us we ought to do something.
He paused for a moment, and the girl's brown eyes filled with tears.
He paused for a second and then rose and walked across the room.
He paused for a moment or two at the pillar-box weighing the letters in his hand.
He paused for a second, and the trouble in his voice perplexed Mrs. Willoughby.
The last thing he did,' and he paused for a second, 'was to give me advice about the management of the Matanga Company.
He paused for a second and asked, 'Have you ever been inside a camera obscura?
I paused for a moment outside the drawing-room door which stood ajar, and I could hear my lover's deep voice within.
She thought perhaps that Uncle Luke would----" I paused for words.
Just outside them I paused for a second; I had almost turned back; then I heard a low laugh and there was the pleasant tinkle of teacups.
He opened his mouth wide, until his yellow fangs gleamed in the sun, and the girl with the axe paused for a moment in her work, and flung back her head, staring at the two before the cabin door.
Then he paused for a moment, and bent over to put his hand on Peter.
His lean and scraggly face was alight with a sinister exultation as he paused for a moment close to the rock behind which Peter was hidden, and Peter's fangs lay bare and his body trembled while the man stood there.
At times, where the road-bed was smooth, he almost ran, and at others he paused for a little to gather his breath and listen.
I paused for a moment, aimlessly regarding the streams of humanity hurrying in and out, streaking the white marble floor with the wet filth of the streets.
As Cynthia drew her hand away a gentleman came out of the hotel, paused for a brief moment by the door and stared at them, and then passed on without a word or a nod of recognition.
He paused for a few low-spoken words with the tawdry constable, who sat down on the banquette after his chief had gone, still clinging to the bridle.
Mrs. Maturin, returning from an errand, paused for an instant in the doorway, and ran forward and bent over Janet.
He paused for a second, and I took the opportunity to recount to him the dreadful issue of the scene, with the burning of the cabin.
I half-paused for a moment, and then tapping lightly, raised the latch and entered.
Here Alice turned round towards him sharply, as though she were going to interrupt him, but she said nothing, though he paused for her to speak; and then he went on.
And now, when he paused for a moment, she made no further sign that she wished to escape, nor did she say a word to intimate her further wish that he should be silent.
Then he paused for a minute or two, not looking at her, but gazing still on the mountain opposite.
Then he paused for an answer, but she made him none.
He paused for a moment, both in his locution, and in his walk back and forward across the floor.
He paused for a moment, and then continued: "A delightfully euphonious set of names those Hili-lites possess.
He paused for a moment; and then this peculiar man continued: "And I know!
He paused for a moment, as if he were choosing his words with a care that sprang from his fear lest he should indeed rouse her anger and--lose her.
He paused for a moment and gently drew the lash of the whip over the wet backs of the two horses who were listening intently to the voice of their beloved master.
He paused for a moment before he added: "I do not know whether she can do so.
He crossed the outer room, the inner door was shut, and entering, he paused for a moment.
He paused for a few moments at the edge of the harbour, to throw the light of his lantern across the water.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "paused for" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
