Example sentences of "[vb past] there [prep] [art] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | I arrived there at the due time and waited and waited , but no corporal appeared . |
| 2 | One night , later in their affair , O woke up in the middle of one of his long and noisy dreams and lay there for a long time looking at Boy 's face as he slept . |
| 3 | 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 . ’ |
| 4 | Many people claim that Frederick was imprisoned by the Turks , and that after his release he returned to Kaiserslautern and lived there for a long time . |
| 5 | Yeah , and we lived there for a long time did n't you , you stayed in that house for a long , long time |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Sat there for a long time , her mind blank . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | She stayed there for a long time . |
| 10 | He stayed there for a long time . |
| 11 | He stayed there for a long time , until he was sure that the dogs had gone , then he came out . |
| 12 | She stood there for a long time , thinking the whole thing out . |