Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] there for [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I lay there for a long time unhappy and hardly noticing the daily noises of the block assembling round me . |
| 2 | I lay there for a long time thinking about that , the loud insistence of the Mexican music from across the way drumming in my ears and gradually merging into the crashing ice of layering floes as my mind drifted into a fantasy of trekking with Iris Sunderby towards the dim outline of an icicle-festooned ghost of a ship , the man at the helm towering like a giant question mark over my jet-lagged brain . |
| 3 | And , miraculously , there was little resistance and I stared in disbelief as the great organ disappeared gloriously and wonderfully from sight I was right behind it with my arm , probing frantically away up to the shoulder as I rotated my wrist again and again till both uterine cornua were fully involuted Ben I was certain beyond doubt that everything was back in place I lay there for a few moments , my arm still deep inside the sow , my forehead resting on the floor . |
| 4 | I sit there for a second thinking , No , it ca n't be … |
| 5 | And I went there for a little bit , and then we moved on , moved off from there , do you see ? |
| 6 | One company director — then unconverted — whom I took there for the first time one Tuesday had this reaction : ‘ All my life I have been longing without knowing it to hear preaching like this . ’ |
| 7 | She lies there for a long time , not saying nothing . |
| 8 | When you walk you wait there for the first time do n't you ? |
| 9 | She stayed there for a long time . |
| 10 | She stood there for a long time , thinking the whole thing out . |
| 11 | She sat there for a long time rocking backwards and forwards and giving herself up to howling , letting her gasps for breath shake her to pieces and leave her shuddering . |
| 12 | She sat there for a few seconds , then heard a voice softly calling her name . |
| 13 | Yeah , and we lived there for a long time did n't you , you stayed in that house for a long , long time |
| 14 | If the child shows a habit of prolonged crying then instead of expecting him or her to sit there for a long period of time , the first break in crying after a few minutes should be taken by the parent as an opportunity to allow the child to get up . |
| 15 | They stood there for a few more seconds , staring at each other . |
| 16 | They sat there for a long time , drinking their milk , gazing out at the grey drizzle while the Bārakotes told them stories about their home in the south , about the brightly coloured saris that the women wear , about the bazaars , and all the shops and stalls with beads and bangles , oranges , lemons , spices , chilli . |
| 17 | And they sat in the car with the windows down in the freezing dawn and they watched the distant city lights going out under the dawn at five in the morning , they sat there for a full half hour , looking , and thinking how beautiful the city looked at this time and at this distance … |
| 18 | But we 're not content in in the government to let it rest there for the poorest countries , the very poorest countries , even more help is urgently needed . |
| 19 | Cursing and gasping , he lay there for a full five minutes , the surprisingly intact fish by his side . |
| 20 | A few years later , the Farrers moved the flourishing business to premises over the Empire Meat Company in The Ox Row at the side of the Market Place and it continued there for the next thirty years . |
| 21 | He sat there for a few minutes . |
| 22 | He sat there for a few moments inhaling the smoke . |
| 23 | The sudden change of colour on the wall had upset its sense of direction and it buzzed about angrily and eventually it came into the porch where I was sitting and it stayed there for a few minutes and then went outside searching the wall again for the entrance . |
| 24 | He remained there for a few seconds then slowly got to his feet and moved to the door leading into the hallway . |
| 25 | He stayed there for a long time . |
| 26 | He stayed there for a long time , until he was sure that the dogs had gone , then he came out . |
| 27 | He stood there for a few moments . |
| 28 | And her uncle with me beside you and whole wedding and the minister was saying , sit down and do n't he he brought her up the aisle , I do n't know whether her father 's coming back or something , and he says no I 'm not sitting like , he says no I 'm not moving back and he stood there for the whole wedding like , back . |