Example sentences of "[be] there for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | No footings were laid — the walls were built directly on the patio paving stones ; they have been there for years and I thought there was little chance of them subsiding . |
| 32 | There 's a sign at the top of the road that 's been there for years , ever since they opened the new road , and it says ‘ Strome Ferry — no ferry ’ , and that just says it all . |
| 33 | It must have been there for years , abandoned to the plunderers , an illicit plaything for the local children , a welcome shelter for the occasional vagrant like the seventy-year-old alcoholic who had stumbled on the body . |
| 34 | ‘ It had been there for years — I played there myself as a child — but it was situated in the worst possible place . |
| 35 | Her new life at Usher started appropriately on January 1st One day in the office , and she understood the situation better than some of the staff who had been there for years . |
| 36 | They must have been there for years . ’ |
| 37 | I 'd been sexually abused and all of a sudden the poison that had been there for years started boiling to the surface . |
| 38 | He 's been there for weeks and I could have done the whole thing in a couple of days . |
| 39 | She 's been there for months — it 's a long-term project … |
| 40 | There was no sign that anyone had been there for months . |
| 41 | We broke that , or that was broke er , but we 'll blame the carrier now and look at it , then our security guy goes out and they know it 's been sitting around someone 's you know , it 's been there for months ! |
| 42 | She had n't known Mark very well , but she had been there for Robyn when he had died , seen the agony that her friend had gone through . |
| 43 | Should setpiece equality form the plot , what prospects are there for Scotland 's backs to build on their Ireland display and will we see more than the limited offerings which the Welsh managed against England ? |
| 44 | ‘ We have spent a lot of money on the Elland Road stadium and we have to make sure resources are there for developments on and off the field . |
| 45 | Even though my children 's reading has long since moved on to Roald Dahl , C S Lewis and Judy Blume , the story ‘ template ’ is there , the dubious role models of their best-loved tales are firmly entrenched and I 'm beginning to wonder if they are there for life . |
| 46 | The college has a number of resident post-graduate students who are there for periods varying from a year to three years . |
| 47 | But the Peace People are there for prisoners ' wives who want to break all connections with the gunmen . |
| 48 | ‘ I do n't say they are there for months but when they ca n't find a friend or relative to put them up they have to resort to anywhere to keep out of the wind and rain . |
| 49 | What models in addition to private enterprise are there for Community Economic Development ? |
| 50 | In particular , what effect will it have on patrolling officers ' discretionary decisions ( whether to prosecute or verbally advise an offending motorist ) , what consequences may there be for the management and monitoring of these discretionary enforcement practices by supervisory officers , and what implications are there for Force training |
| 51 | What opportunities are there for group as well as one to one initiatives in health promotion ? |
| 52 | Also what opportunities are there for people to have fun , to keep physically fit , to play games or to discover things of interest ? |
| 53 | What opportunities are there for people to avoid paying tax ? |
| 54 | Erm I 've , I I think I 'll erm was talking about people attending the health authority meetings at the moment but the local health authority do move meetings around , Saffron Walden Bishop 's Stortford , Harlow and and and one over at erm and this apart from it 's was only us coming from Harlow at the meeting last week and the health authority met in Harlow er , you know the me the meetings are moving about , they are there for people to come to but if they 're not coming to the meetings while they 're o on on the doorstep then , then really what else can the health authority do to me , to make people come ? |
| 55 | ( ii ) What provisions are there for applicants without the requisite experience ? |
| 56 | Tailoring did n't steal the show , but jackets were there for women who ca n't imagine a wardrobe without them . |
| 57 | " My people were there for generations untold . " |
| 58 | Which was pretty heartening , considering it was down to him to do one of my parole reports and that most of the people in Styal were there for drugs , or drug-related crimes , like kiting cheques [ passing stolen cheques ] to buy drugs or shoplifting to buy drugs . |
| 59 | After I shouted at you for not being there for Mrs Richards ? ’ |
| 60 | The Government talk about competition , but what chance is there for competition in rural areas where there is perhaps only one bus every hour , or every two or three hours ? |