Example sentences of "[be] there for a " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you 're there for a week , you could comfortably play the two groups we recommend for their value , hospitality and enjoy some agreeable accommodation . |
| 2 | Erm they 're the they 're there for a purpose and their size is there for a purpose in terms of er of the constrictions of the other road er sizing or whatever , and obviously huge vehicles who just ca n't possibly manoeuvre without going over . |
| 3 | ‘ I know speed limits can be boring and frustrating but they 're there for a reason , ’ added Ch Insp Williams . |
| 4 | Just to get to , and er so we 've , we 're there for an hour or so , then we are going er the Y M C A at Lakeside |
| 5 | 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 … |
| 6 | ‘ I 'll only be there for a minute , Constance , to see that things are all right . |
| 7 | ‘ 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 . |
| 8 | I 'll be there for a few hours . ’ |
| 9 | But your list must seem to be there for a purpose . |
| 10 | Do you have to be there for a certain amount of time ? |
| 11 | and he probably would n't mind that you were only going to be there for a year or two you know he 's getting |
| 12 | Erm but they seemed to be there for a specific purpose , but the normal day to day |
| 13 | I like being in a war and I like being there because it 's a great adventure for me , but my duty is to be there for a reason , not just to have a bloody good time … |
| 14 | ‘ I was privileged to be there for a day and the whole thing was handled magnificently . ’ |
| 15 | Well they sort of said that what , hopefully , she 'll like be there for a couple of days and she 'll never think she 's been anywhere else , she 'll think she 's been there all the time . |
| 16 | Great , great , can you be there for an 8am departure , and make sure you wear your epaulettes ? |
| 17 | But we will be there for an hour . |
| 18 | Sixty-two per cent of those in old people 's homes had been there for a year or more compared with 47 per cent of those in nursing homes , but this difference might have occurred by chance . |
| 19 | By the beginning of 1942 rapid expansion had taken place , so that by the end of that year there were some 3,293 staff of all grades , of whom 1,566 were service personnel and 1,727 civilian , and by the time that I had been there for a year there were over 5,000 in all . |
| 20 | Clearly , Petasites has been there for a very long time . |
| 21 | She felt as if she were not really there , as if she had not really been there for a long time . |
| 22 | He told me he had been there for a long time dying . |
| 23 | A clergyman who was in Manchester Cathedral when the second device went off said : ‘ I had only been there for a matter of seconds when I heard an almighty crump . |
| 24 | He 's a new environment officer , he 's only been there for a month or something . |
| 25 | Perhaps not as bad as Buff , because the animal had only been there for a second or two and I had told them it was a robot . |
| 26 | Er although most people think it 's been there for a long time , it has n't . |
| 27 | And when the hole has been there for a couple of days , they can dig another if necessary . |
| 28 | Cos this is quite strong stuff I 'm gon na give you because that 's , once that 's been there for a week or two it 's hard to get it shifted . |
| 29 | The team , including John Hall from Scottish Nuclear , had been there for a year before I arrived and had done much in identifying the work required . |
| 30 | Is she aware that when my hon. Friend the Member for Workington ( Mr. Campbell-Savours ) and I visited Moscow last week and questioned Russian officials about food aid , we found stacked away in a third-floor warehouse what we were told was the whole British contribution of beef to Moscow , which had been there for a month ? |