Example sentences of "[verb] there [v-ing] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Daniel who owns the mill ah , the young man you 've got there working for you he said , you 're wrong it 's a girl ! |
| 2 | Morthen slashed through the bindings of Tallis 's cloak , stripped the woman as she lay there gasping for breath and life , mind awhirl with confused thoughts , with loss , with fear … with need . |
| 3 | I lay there waiting for the half-hour to pass ; and the silence of the house was still , that day , much more a silence of peace than one of fear . |
| 4 | ‘ I heard a vroom and a thud and then just lay there waiting for an explosion . |
| 5 | Haroun still lay there fighting for his life . |
| 6 | He did n't always recognize the president 's authority , there 's a wonderful , there 's a wonderful true story of er er at some point in the Korean war Truman flew out from Los Angeles and MacArthur flew out from er Korea and they met in one of the Pacific islands , I forget which one i er Wake Island I think , and , and on the runway you had the president 's plane at one end and MacArthur 's plane at the other end you see , and Truman sits there waiting for MacArthur to come to him and MacArthur sits there waiting for the president to come to him , you see , and nobody moves . |
| 7 | He did n't always recognize the president 's authority , there 's a wonderful , there 's a wonderful true story of er er at some point in the Korean war Truman flew out from Los Angeles and MacArthur flew out from er Korea and they met in one of the Pacific islands , I forget which one i er Wake Island I think , and , and on the runway you had the president 's plane at one end and MacArthur 's plane at the other end you see , and Truman sits there waiting for MacArthur to come to him and MacArthur sits there waiting for the president to come to him , you see , and nobody moves . |
| 8 | that lady is on , been on the corner , standing there talking for the last twenty minutes which must mean that Mark was late to school this morning so then |
| 9 | At once it opened , as if she had been standing there waiting for the summons . |
| 10 | standing there waiting for |
| 11 | Standing there waiting for six ! |
| 12 | Graham sitting there waiting for me to kick him in the teeth . |
| 13 | I was sitting there waiting for the grub to show when Martin Amis came through the open door — you know , the writer I was chatting to in the pub the other night . |
| 14 | Chips was sitting there waiting for him . ’ |
| 15 | Well I was just the one sitting there waiting for and nothing came |
| 16 | Did you know there 's someone waiting for you at Radio Nottingham 's reception , Pudsey Bear is sitting there waiting for you to take him home . |
| 17 | Cos he 'll eat them , he 'll be stood there waiting for them coming out of the blooming oven ! |
| 18 | My three daughters sat there waiting for me . |
| 19 | It was n't hell working for Faye , and as she sat there waiting for the medical staff to leave the artist 's room , Belinda realised , I 've changed . |
| 20 | He sat there sweating for forty-five minutes . |
| 21 | Mr Priest looked up and stared at Dad for a while and Dad stood there waiting for a reply . |
| 22 | I stood there waiting for him to fall over but unfortunately nothing happened . |
| 23 | But I went down the bottom of this street , and the man stood there waiting for me . |
| 24 | We all stood there waiting for him to speak . |