Example sentences of "[vb base] there for [art] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Will you and Jane wait there for a while until I 'm respectable again ? ’ |
| 2 | When you walk you wait there for the first time do n't you ? |
| 3 | Stop there for a moment or two before standing up . |
| 4 | And they stop there for a bit , when they 've gone past the start . |
| 5 | When they crested a wooded hill shortly before sunset and saw cultivated fields stretching down towards a small village in the distance it took all her will-power not to beg that they stop there for the night . |
| 6 | But what 's really scary is that I often lie there for an age afterwards thinking , ‘ Just what will I do , if this dream should ever come true ? ’ |
| 7 | We stand there for a second or two . |
| 8 | You sit there , then you get up and you walk to one end of your cell , which is n't very far , stand there for a little while , then you walk back , look out the window , and all the thoughts go through your mind — I could be out there , your children , friends , what you 'd be doing if you was out there . |
| 9 | I stand there for a second , before stepping back . |
| 10 | Well while you 're just having look there for a minute I 'm gon na nip to the basement and straight back up again ok , I wo n't be a minute . |
| 11 | And I could put myself down as in case I get there for a day or two . |
| 12 | Stay there for a few minutes and you will begin to experience one of several sensations : it may be a slight breeze , or perhaps a tingling sensation , heat ( especially in the palms ) , static or even a magnetic pull . |
| 13 | In contrast to some other low-income countries in Africa , most children do eventually get to primary school and stay there for a few years . |
| 14 | The saddles are neat and trim , and stay there for a week to ten days . |
| 15 | The young woodlice hatch in this pouch and stay there for a while . |
| 16 | Right now she 'd like nothing better than to climb into bed and stay there for a week , sleeping her troubles away . |
| 17 | They 're especially pleased because artists of Springsteen 's stature normally head straight for Wembley and stay there for a week . |
| 18 | The second half proved a nightmare as the visitors hit the first three baskets to take the lead for the first time and stay there for a 7670 victory . |
| 19 | And you had to get out on the floor that catered for your particular dominant moral propensity , and stay there for the whole of Eternity . |
| 20 | The only thing they wanted to hear was that the prophet had said that everyone could go to Zap Zone and stay there for the rest of their natural lives . |
| 21 | The peninsula is peaceful and pretty now , and many go there for a gentle but gastronomic tour . |
| 22 | So they 've kept that tradition so we go there for the colours , and they provide a palette each year , er that 's the ninety one ninety two . |
| 23 | I sit there for a bit longer , till I finish my coffee , then I decide to go out and have a look round the station . |
| 24 | I sit there for a second thinking , No , it ca n't be … |
| 25 | I lay there for a long time unhappy and hardly noticing the daily noises of the block assembling round me . |
| 26 | In the event she did neither , but lay there for a while wondering what Johnny was doing , hidden away from her behind time 's misty barrier . |
| 27 | And , miraculously , there was little resistance and I stared in disbelief as the great organ disappeared gloriously and wonderfully from sight I was right behind it with my arm , probing frantically away up to the shoulder as I rotated my wrist again and again till both uterine cornua were fully involuted Ben I was certain beyond doubt that everything was back in place I lay there for a few moments , my arm still deep inside the sow , my forehead resting on the floor . |
| 28 | I lay there for a long time thinking about that , the loud insistence of the Mexican music from across the way drumming in my ears and gradually merging into the crashing ice of layering floes as my mind drifted into a fantasy of trekking with Iris Sunderby towards the dim outline of an icicle-festooned ghost of a ship , the man at the helm towering like a giant question mark over my jet-lagged brain . |
| 29 | I lay there for a minute recovering my cool and then headed for the back door . |
| 30 | She did not aim for sleep , though , but lay there for an age wanting some of her anger back . |