Example sentences of "[v-ing] there for " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | This sign announced that The Victorian Fitted Kitchen Company would soon be opening there for business . |
| 3 | This was acquired in the early ‘ twenties by the Noyce family and they continued trading there for the next sixty years . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Booking there for Whitlow . |
| 6 | Time was impossible to measure down in Chard — it always is when you 're a child — and I remember one day chatting to Uncle Cyril and feeling that I 'd been living there for an age . |
| 7 | Wastell bought a house in Bury before 1490 and was living there for much of the remainder of his life . |
| 8 | Why he looking there for ? |
| 9 | Just pausing there for a moment , can you point out to Mr Inspector where that er building was to be developed , Mrs ? |
| 10 | Leaving the punchbowl lying there for the clearup people to find in the morning , Wayne followed her . |
| 11 | As the porter said , the corpses might have been lying there for days , even weeks . |
| 12 | When she was found they reckoned she 'd been lying there for three hours . |
| 13 | He 'd been waiting there for me , I concluded . |
| 14 | It was as if he had been waiting there for me all my life . |
| 15 | ‘ They 've been waiting there for ages , ’ said Gurder . |
| 16 | Sometimes she 'd keep me waiting there for over an hour while she scanned the surroundings through 180 degrees , over and over again . |
| 17 | He 'll be waiting there for you . |
| 18 | Sometimes she was afraid that animals might take them , but when they went noisily along the path she still hoped that one day the man would be waiting there for them , beside the pile of stones . |
| 19 | Had he been waiting there for her to return ? |
| 20 | But we were out , he was very good , I mean I know he was waiting there for us |
| 21 | She 's She 's sitting in there waiting there for years |
| 22 | It 's important that we do n't lose but we wo n't be going there for a draw . ’ |
| 23 | Christopher had obviously been going there for some years . |
| 24 | What are you go what are you going there for . |
| 25 | They may be absolutely fine , and if you 're going there for a number of years , you 've probably got no er problem with them , but of course the smaller the organization the simpler is , it is for other erm factors to creep in . |
| 26 | And I 've I 've known I 've heard of the Glen Islan m men would walk out the hill to the market of Braemar , the Castletown market they used to say , likely going there for sheep or something , I do n't know that was beyond my stories . |
| 27 | What on earth are you going there for ? ’ |
| 28 | Although we have been going there for 10 years the excitement of seeing all our friends will never ever die and I hope it is going to stay a good , clean Holiday site for many years . |
| 29 | ‘ That 's funny , ’ said Ken , ‘ I was thinking of going there for my holiday . ’ |
| 30 | Soon after the early death of his father in 1829 , Israel appears to have become a clerk in an uncle 's bank in Göttingen , remaining there for ten years . |