Example sentences of "[vb past] there for a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then his glance flicked down to her mouth , lingered there for a moment — and she just knew that he was remembering those kisses they had shared . |
| 2 | The second thing I did n't know , she er , she worked eighteen , she worked for eighteen months in London , arrived there for a holiday , and er , from being eighteen , so sh , this now will explain why she 's quite mature as I said she 's still very young , and that . |
| 3 | A snowflake touched the glass , stuck there for a moment then melted . |
| 4 | Walked there for a start . |
| 5 | We walked from Little Thomham to Steams of Shimpling ; and we walked there for a week . |
| 6 | The gear had held and I hung there for a moment , taking stock . |
| 7 | The last gleam of sun touched the ruined battlements as they watched , hung there for a moment like a tattered cloth caught on a briar , and was gone . |
| 8 | He hung there for a second before slithering sideways , and as he slipped towards the ground the seladang hooked blindly at his body , knocking it this way and that , until one of its long horns caught and held . |
| 9 | It hung there for a moment . |
| 10 | The Modernists had enjoyed a brief life as a London group after Pound settled there for a dozen years in 1908 ; Bloomsbury was already one , first in Cambridge and later in London and Sussex , sharing not just a range of assumptions and convictions but an intimate web of social and amorous relations . |
| 11 | He lay there for a moment , stunned , winded , waiting for a message from his numbed brain . |
| 12 | He lay there for a moment , getting his breath . |
| 13 | One night , later in their affair , O woke up in the middle of one of his long and noisy dreams and lay there for a long time looking at Boy 's face as he slept . |
| 14 | He lay there for a minute , beneath his tumbled bedclothes , savouring the excitement . |
| 15 | Cursing and gasping , he lay there for a full five minutes , the surprisingly intact fish by his side . |
| 16 | He lay there for a moment before rolling over and getting to his knees . |
| 17 | He lay there for a minute scratching at the pitiful amount of hair on his chest and then he came over . |
| 18 | At Easter we went there for a holiday , and often have since . |
| 19 | The tiny room at the back of the shop was fitted with a trestle table and two forms and country people went there for a meal on market days . |
| 20 | ‘ Then one night Hugo and Jebb ( The Mouse 's twanging Boothby twins ) went there for a quiet beer and the DJ was going , ‘ I 've heard that a couple of Jacob 's Mouse are here and I want to tell them to get off their high horse and come down to play here . |
| 21 | And I went there for a little bit , and then we moved on , moved off from there , do you see ? |
| 22 | There were a lot of people there who felt seriously about what they were fighting for but people went there for a good fight really , they had n't been able to show any aggression for the last two years . |
| 23 | And then she was short of a nursing there and then I went there for a bit . |
| 24 | We used to , we , I used to go when my husband was alive we used to go to erm Devon cos I had a brother living in Devon we used to go there , but er unfortunately I lost him when he was only fifty with a coronary , and so erm , in , cos and after that I lost my husband you see so cos we I 've never been away like that before , not , not since , years ago that was , he 's been gone twenty one years this Christmas sixteenth might be so , I 've not been able to so I , I , I go with the erm , I went with the Red Cross this year the year before last I went erm er , Char Charlie took me away we went to er a chalet we stayed at and er a friend of mine we went there for a week had a week there , that poured of rain every day , this year it poured of rain every day |
| 25 | I went there for a week . |
| 26 | He found it and clung there for a while , then pushed clear and knelt among the waves , head lowered . |
| 27 | Many people claim that Frederick was imprisoned by the Turks , and that after his release he returned to Kaiserslautern and lived there for a long time . |
| 28 | Yeah , and we lived there for a long time did n't you , you stayed in that house for a long , long time |
| 29 | She abandoned the half-formed thought as he went on , ‘ I was educated in England , and lived there for a number of years . |
| 30 | Still , she reached Bristol , and waited there for a ship , ‘ with plenteous tears and boisterous sobbings , with loud cryings and shrill shriekings ’ , and , although her fellow-voyagers threatened to throw her overboard , she got to Spain and back to Bristol in a month . |