Example sentences of "be there for a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Erm but they seemed to be there for a specific purpose , but the normal day to day
2 ‘ She told the doctor at the orphanage , ‘ If I 'm going to go to England for a short time I must be careful not to give too much of my love , but if I 'm going to be there for a long time I can give all the love I can ’ , ’ Mike says .
3 Do you have to be there for a certain amount of time ?
4 If I was outside , she said she could telephone me every day for nothing , if I gave her the number of a phone box and arranged to be there for a certain time
5 She felt as if she were not really there , as if she had not really been there for a long time .
6 He told me he had been there for a long time dying .
7 Er although most people think it 's been there for a long time , it has n't .
8 The social dimension of the Community has been there for a long time .
9 " Signs of a coming plateau have been there for a long time and are now getting better and better " , according to independent consultant Richard Kimberlin .
10 I mean these have n't just been put here , they 've been there for a long time !
11 It 's their intention to leave the boat station there , but as a boat hiring station only , and to let rent that to somebody , not to have boat building enterprises , not to have a car park , not to have a chandlery and so on which was put there by the person whose who used to own it , and we will recoup all of that money from renting that boat station so it can be run as a boat hiring station again , and from three or four of the moorings that are will have been there for a long time , with proper permission .
12 No it has n't been there for a little while British National Corpus I 've been carrying it around with me
13 ‘ They were there for a good couple of hours and when I left at around 2.00pm they were still interviewing players in the spare dressing rooms . ’
14 It is doubtful if the material is there for a first-class combination . ’
15 ‘ I think we 've got to help them because there is still a lot of poverty and the potential is there for a social explosion , ’ he says .
16 Then we bury the toad in an ant-hill ; and it 's there for a full month , till the moon is at the full .
17 ‘ I was there for a long time , but I ca n't remember anyone visiting me .
18 The possibility was there for a tremendous finish .
19 You knew for a fact that anyone in that world was there for a genuine reason , either because he could n't get a job doing anything else — which was probably the best reason — or for the love of it .
20 Yet what alternative was there for a female orator ?
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