Example sentences of "[adv] there for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Though the space was suddenly there for us , we still had to come forward and claim it . |
| 2 | Enough there for a painting — but for the most part there is an awful lot of nothing and no canvas seems big enough to contain it . |
| 3 | There was place enough there for a knight , after the archers had done their work . |
| 4 | His father , the last trained pastor in the country , had been in prison and suffered greatly there for 8 years . |
| 5 | In 1973 the Ladies ' Committee concerned itself with this seat reporting ‘ It was a pity to leave it in the wet even if only there for the time being ’ . |
| 6 | But I was very lucky , I was only there for six weeks ; I was very , very lucky . |
| 7 | And anyway , I 'm only there for a very small part of the year ; I spend most of my time at school , where there 's twelve beds to a room … dorm … and one can never be alone , it 's not allowed . ’ |
| 8 | I was only there for about three months and then I went to a modelling school . |
| 9 | They shepherded their charges with a cheerful , maternal competence as if to reassure them that the place might look like a prison but was as gently beneficent as a nursing home and that they were only there for their own good . |
| 10 | Cormorants are only there for one reason : the lake is filled with fish . |
| 11 | ‘ We were only there for a few weeks . |
| 12 | The certainty that this particular music was being played directly at her and for her , that the fair man had seen her violin case and perhaps a look in her eyes of wistfulness , the fair man alone , for the guitarist seemed only there for support and back-up , decided her . |
| 13 | They told me that the people they want for education are the people who are sentenced for about six months , not the ones who are only there for one month . |
| 14 | And I was only there for four months and . |
| 15 | I ca n't say for sure ; I mean , I was only there for a second or two … |
| 16 | We were only there for twenty-four hours , working throughout the night . |
| 17 | And the rosebush culled from the best North-West London nursery — he 'd planted it last Saturday — was only there for me when I ripped scarlet beads of blood from thin air . |
| 18 | You were going to look at ways of classifying the short stories you 've been looking at , when y , sort of , to look at similarities between short stories , like which ones deal with husband and wife relationships , which ones are about loneliness , I mean , use your paper , it 's it 's only there for scrap paper , you have n't got to produce something that 's gon na be pinned up on the wall . |
| 19 | you 're only there for an hour or so you may have , I do n't know , twenty minutes of appropriate sociability which builds a rapport tremendously well |
| 20 | I think erm , shifts differ slightly through other departments , in the sense that it is only there for one day . |
| 21 | For just spending well , for us , when we 're just , you 're only there for your breakfast are n't you ? |
| 22 | It 's only there for a certain amount of time . |
| 23 | Nor had he to wait long there for the train running in connection with the sailing of the ‘ Iona ’ steamship from Greenock . |
| 24 | City 's attackers The signs were already there for City that they might be in for a spanking when their formidable attack of Andy Cole , Leroy Rosenior and playmaker Jacki Dziekanowski were held in a tight grip in a first-half an opening 45 minutes that was marked by a spectacular 30-yard goal from Justin Channing , in the final week of his loan spell from QPR . |
| 25 | It was certainly a convincing win but the warning signs were already there for all to see : despite the forwards winning a barrel-load of good possession , the Scottish three-quarters failed to score a single try at home in front of a vociferous support and against a decrepit Welsh side . |
| 26 | After her long wakefulness in the night there was no escaping that thought , there was no escaping the suggestion of a pattern : the son who had not been born to her was nevertheless there for her . |
| 27 | Just there for the taking . |
| 28 | The principal aim is to create the impression from just looking at the street that it is not , just there for cars but for pedestrians , cyclists and residents too . |
| 29 | The Nine Miles graffiti that declares ‘ Bob lives ’ is not just there for romantic reasons . |
| 30 | But the revenue was not just there for the taking , and a station had to get its programming right to win the necessary audience . |