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 I went there for a little bit , and then we moved on , moved off from there , do you see ? |
| 4 | She lies there for a long time , not saying nothing . |
| 5 | She stayed there for a long time . |
| 6 | She stood there for a long time , thinking the whole thing out . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Yeah , and we lived there for a long time did n't you , you stayed in that house for a long , long time |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 … |
| 12 | Cursing and gasping , he lay there for a full five minutes , the surprisingly intact fish by his side . |
| 13 | He stayed there for a long time . |
| 14 | He stayed there for a long time , until he was sure that the dogs had gone , then he came out . |
| 15 | 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 . |