Example sentences of "[verb] there for " in BNC.
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| 1 | He used to visit the factory rather late in the afternoon and , if I knew he was coming , I would wait there for him under some pretext . |
| 2 | His knees ached as he knelt there for hours . |
| 3 | They were left on the car park , so people knew they were parked there for the night . |
| 4 | We rehearsed there for about two weeks — it was about 90 degrees in there ! ’ |
| 5 | You 've located there for year 's … ’ |
| 6 | He stands there for so long and his eyes start to close you know it 's sheer blink and er |
| 7 | She went humming upstairs to clean the bathroom , while Winnie turned over in her mind a plan which had been lurking there for some time . |
| 8 | This sign announced that The Victorian Fitted Kitchen Company would soon be opening there for business . |
| 9 | Yanto felt he could have sat there for ever . |
| 10 | I must have sat there for about half an hour or more . |
| 11 | Despite the phone ringing insistently in the background , I felt as if I could have sat there for ever . |
| 12 | You can get back from York in quarter of an hour and then you can be sat there for |
| 13 | They 'd sat there for hours , until nine o'clock at least , until the small garden became shadowy in the dusk . |
| 14 | Over there they have lots of servants , and her mother asks me if I would like to work there for a year , looking after Charlotte , so that Nicola could come and stay with them . |
| 15 | Late one evening in 1958 Alfred Cobban telephoned me to see if I would consider going to Cumberland Lodge , in Windsor Great Park , to work there for three years as Director of Studies . |
| 16 | Martin Martin notes that on a small rocky island to the south of Skye there is ‘ a great quantity of scurvey-grass , of an extraordinary size , and very thick ; the natives eat it frequently , as well boiled as raw : two of them told me that they happened to be confined there for the space of thirty hours , by a contrary wind ; and being without victuals , fell to eating this scurvey-grass , and finding it of a sweet taste , far different from the land scurvey-grass , they ate a large basketful of it , which did abundantly satisfy their appetites until their return home ’ . |
| 17 | ‘ We talked of the extraordinary fact of Lady Grange 's being sent to St Kilda , and confined there for several years , without any means of relief . ’ |
| 18 | And when she 's been confined there for days you sometimes have n't bothered with a towel . |
| 19 | My father had proceeded to stand there for some moments , saying nothing , merely holding open the door . |
| 20 | Edward continued to stand there for another minute or two . |
| 21 | ‘ That gives us the initial impression that the explosion was of an accidental nature rather than a purposeful one , although there can be no doubt that the explosives were stockpiled there for killing people , ’ the officer said . |
| 22 | as long as erm there 's space found there for them . |
| 23 | This was acquired in the early ‘ twenties by the Noyce family and they continued trading there for the next sixty years . |
| 24 | Yes he had booked there for a week , I think it was for a business meeting with Mr Sandy , that 's all I know . |
| 25 | The first we step into we call the infant or thoughtless Chamber , in which we remain as long as we do not think … we no sooner get into the second Chamber , which I shall call the Chamber of Maiden-Thought , than we become intoxicated with the light and the atmosphere , we see nothing but pleasant wonders , and think of delaying there for ever in delight . |
| 26 | Following the thought of my hon. Friend the Member for Dartford ( Mr. Dunn ) , may I invite the Minister to come there for a walk with his dog on Christmas day to envisage the damage that the new road will cause ? |
| 27 | David Icke lives there for God 's sake … literally . |
| 28 | She lies there for a long time , not saying nothing . |
| 29 | The rest of the village was on stilts , a Southend pier of teak , and we stopped there for petrol and beer . |
| 30 | Anyway to finish that story about stopping and starting , I stopped there for fifty years and me mother was still alive when er when I at ninety three and when I retired in nineteen seventy nine , nineteen eighty I told me mum that I was finishing and she looked at me I told you that job would n't last and I , I , I mean I 'd done fifty years all but a few months . |