Example sentences of "[vb past] there for the " in BNC.

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1 In recent years , ex-students have achieved rapid prominence : Ian Davenport , Fiona Rae and Damien Hirst were shortlisted for the Turner Prize in the last two years , while enough of the young neo-conceptual artists dominating the scene ( represented in the Saatchi Collection ; for instance ) studied there for the style to be referred to as ‘ the Goldsmiths ’ phenomenon ’ .
2 Murrells spent ten years in the reserve , kept there for the last few years against his will because Mitchell considered him indispensable .
3 But the sheaf was always cut The last sheaf was cut then it was er put in the barn and kept there for the year and
4 One company director — then unconverted — whom I took there for the first time one Tuesday had this reaction : ‘ All my life I have been longing without knowing it to hear preaching like this . ’
5 Queen Victoria went there for the first , very influential time in 1889 , though even before that the surprisingly large English community in Pau had begun to colonize it , to such an extent that by the 1870s not only did the Church of England have congregations in Biarritz but they were already schismatic and the Archbishop of Canterbury had to travel out on a pastoral visit to try and stifle the factionalism .
6 Added to that , there was something about the Wartberg works that I found soothing the first time I went there for the interview .
7 WILLIAM SHAWCROSS , opposite page , never lived in Vietnam , but went there for The Sunday Times six times between 1972 and 1983 .
8 I went there for the opening and I 'm really proud to be associated with water because I think it 's I think it 's a wonderful piece of engineering and excellent .
9 I went there for the clothing , because Antoinette wanted me to take photographs .
10 Let's have a realistic attitude : Batty went there for the money .
11 And we went there for the Christmas one did n't we ?
12 Although born and bred in the country and reinstalled there for the past 30 years , I fear I am not a proper countryman ; London has dished me .
13 A few years later , the Farrers moved the flourishing business to premises over the Empire Meat Company in The Ox Row at the side of the Market Place and it continued there for the next thirty years .
14 I stayed there for the duration to try and prove to myself that I was able to do it .
15 And he stayed there for the rest of his life .
16 They had enough food and wine , and stayed there for the next five days .
17 When Christmas came round , many of them stayed there for the festivities .
18 He remained there for the start of the 1985–86 campaign , but returned to Arsenal to make 27 first-team appearances .
19 This he accepted in 1862 and remained there for the rest of his life , being left free to pursue his own research .
20 He moved to Belfast East , was elected MP at the Westminster elections of February and October , 1974 , and remained there for the elections to the Constitutional Convention .
21 And her uncle with me beside you and whole wedding and the minister was saying , sit down and do n't he he brought her up the aisle , I do n't know whether her father 's coming back or something , and he says no I 'm not sitting like , he says no I 'm not moving back and he stood there for the whole wedding like , back .
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