Example sentences of "[pron] there for a " in BNC.

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1 er I mean it depends I suppose the extent to which there 's any tutorial element but I mean erm whether they have you there for a week or something and teach you some of the practical
2 Er right I 'll just leave you there for a moment and put that back up there .
3 Oh it 's nice to have you there for a walk
4 I know what you mean , your husband 's gon na miss you there for a couple of nights
5 Can I just , can I just stop you there for a minute .
6 ‘ Hold him there for a second , Kelly , ’ said Bill .
7 ‘ I took her there for a last relaxing evening before we threw ourselves into the election campaign .
8 Keep her there for a minute .
9 Hold them there for a few moments ( see Fig. 11 ) .
10 He left them there for a few days , checking that the wasps still kept returning to their burrows .
11 Perhaps you and Iris would care to join me there for a drink one evening ? ’
12 We noticed that they touched each other all evening , shoulder to shoulder , knee to knee , nothing obvious , although I did see O raise Boy 's hand to his lips once , and later I saw Boy rest his head on O 's knees , just lay it there for a moment like a dog .
13 ‘ I 've concreted up the mouth of the cave and the gap in the rocks which it burst through because I wanted to hold it there for a bit longer .
14 Leave it there for a few days , preferably in wet weather .
15 So he , he thought he 'd do an experiment , er he took a small piece of radium which he 'd extracted from several tons of pitchblende and he put this bit of radium on his forearm and , and put a bandage round to hold it in place and left it there for a week and said right I 'll see what happens .
16 She took the smoke down deep into her lungs and held it there for a while before letting it out slowly .
17 Perhaps it is best to leave it there for a little longer . ’
18 She left it there for a few seconds , then restored it to its previous position .
19 He put an arm around her shoulders and kept it there for a moment .
20 Leave it there for a couple of days .
21 I 'm only gon na put it there for a couple of minutes .
22 The pump ‘ pinned us there for a few seconds before the other lads got it off ’ .
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