Example sentences of "[verb] there for [det] " 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 | ‘ We talked of the extraordinary fact of Lady Grange 's being sent to St Kilda , and confined there for several years , without any means of relief . ’ |
| 3 | Edward continued to stand there for another minute or two . |
| 4 | My father had proceeded to stand there for some moments , saying nothing , merely holding open the door . |
| 5 | And er , we stopped there for some time and nothing happened and me dad says Gil ! |
| 6 | Wastell bought a house in Bury before 1490 and was living there for much of the remainder of his life . |
| 7 | Christopher had obviously been going there for some years . |
| 8 | Erm er well everyone gets there for half six but it does n't exactly start till seven . |
| 9 | The story was an apparently true one concerning a certain butler who had travelled with his employer to India and served there for many years maintaining amongst the native staff the same high standards he had commanded in England . |
| 10 | He served there for many years , ultimately becoming chairman . |
| 11 | The needle crept steadily up to Mach .99 and hung there for several seconds . |
| 12 | Similarly , extensive pastures can be at some distance , since animals can be walked there and kept there for some time by herdsmen . |
| 13 | We contented ourselves with a few small purchases , but will probably go there for some more serious shopping before the end of our stay in Peking , as it is obviously the best place in the country for buying touristy things . |
| 14 | It might also cause the price of oil to soar above $50 a barrel and stay there for some months . |
| 15 | He lay there for several hours , sleeping fitfully , having occasional nightmares , trying to galvanise himself into getting up , and failing because of the absolute exhaustion that appeared to have gripped his limbs . |
| 16 | There are sites where it is not only possible to visit and see the reconstructions , but also to take part in activities simulating the way people lived on that site in the past , or even to live there for several days to get some sort of impression of the way of life . |
| 17 | He might go to hell and rot there for all she cared . |
| 18 | ( Hence , notably in ‘ Gerontion ’ , Eliot 's ability to approximate and even conform to Jacobean blank verse , yet to depart from it smoothly when he pleased. ) Pound 's verse on the contrary was , at least after Homage to Sextus Propertius , free , not ‘ freed ’ : the rhythms that he sought and attained either had never appeared before in the language , or else had not appeared there for many centuries . |
| 19 | The firm traded there for many years and a number of well-known craftsmen served their apprenticeships at the works . |
| 20 | We sit there for half an hour perhaps and log one car , a few walkers , several cows , perhaps a few ghosts . |
| 21 | We sit there for some time but I keep glancing up , and gradually become terrified that the man is somehow not dead or has become a zombie and is climbing back up the shaft towards us , to push the grating up and put his already rotting hands down and grab us both by the hair . |
| 22 | I lay there for many hours , but at last I fell asleep , and in my small , helpless boat , dreamed of home and the Admiral Benbow . |
| 23 | I did n't stay there for that . |
| 24 | On the quay opposite the Cafe de la Rotonde you 'll see poor Annamese boys parading there for such men , with rice powder on their faces . |
| 25 | Shortly afterwards we moved to , and we lived there for many years . |
| 26 | We lived there for another four years , until it became too difficult for me to manage the stairs . |
| 27 | The money deposited in England , Switzerland and other parts of Europe would remain there for many years until Samuel was free again to travel through a liberated continent . |
| 28 | She catches quarter nine bus to get there for half nine , quarter to ten . |
| 29 | There 's no need to worry — I 'd not live there for all the gold in Christendom and I told the lady Anne as much ! |
| 30 | The men began to hand in their weapons to their officers , stationed there for that specific purpose . |