Example sentences of "[v-ing] there for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This sign announced that The Victorian Fitted Kitchen Company would soon be opening there for business . |
| 2 | Booking there for Whitlow . |
| 3 | As the porter said , the corpses might have been lying there for days , even weeks . |
| 4 | ‘ They 've been waiting there for ages , ’ said Gurder . |
| 5 | She 's She 's sitting in there waiting there for years |
| 6 | And I 've I 've known I 've heard of the Glen Islan m men would walk out the hill to the market of Braemar , the Castletown market they used to say , likely going there for sheep or something , I do n't know that was beyond my stories . |
| 7 | Travis showed every sign of staying there for hours . |
| 8 | During the day he was at the power station and at weekends , reversing the normal peregrination , he was at his London flat , frequently staying there for Part of the week if he had a meeting in town . |
| 9 | I end up staying there for ages , thinking about Marie and that . |
| 10 | By this time the families staying there for summer quarters were out for a forenoon walk : mothers , nurses , playful youngsters — some with towels for the bathing , others with picnic baskets , making for the cliffs or the shore . |
| 11 | How about coming there for dinner with me to-morrow ? ’ |
| 12 | I 've been hiding there for ages . |
| 13 | I like to think my name will be hanging there for prosperity . |
| 14 | What happen was we was standing this jeweller 's , well really we 'd been there , she half the stuff for me and er other people and that , but erm , were standing there for ages , and she come , I 'm , I 'm sort of standing there like this up against the counter waiting to be served , suppose to be coming back right , stood right on the foot , it hurt , but I thought ok it 's a busy shop he wo n't so I 'd turned around , sort of he was there , so I sort of went to him like that and he was looked at me and fucking looked back , so I said are you gon na apologise then , getting right fucking pissed off cos I about three o'clock that day , hang over and being dragged up and down the town all fucking day ai n't my idea of fun you know , ri right in a bad mood anyway , and he said no in a real fucking why do n't you try and make me sort of attitude , so I 'm just about to fucking say something to me , like , how out the shop and everything , and she said what 's the fuck , what 's the matter with you then ? |
| 15 | I know , but it 's standing there for ages in the cold is n't it ? |
| 16 | What was I doing admiring you for being so well-behaved , sitting there for hours content to have your arm round me ? |
| 17 | I also find flying so boring , just sitting there for hours . ’ |
| 18 | Since the embers were cool , Tallis imagined that she had been sitting there for hours . |
| 19 | I 've seen people sitting there for hours and hours , their weans soaking and starving . ’ |
| 20 | They must be sitting there for hours with a camera ! |
| 21 | There 's a set up that checks a certain amount of areas and then blanks it otherwise you could be sitting there for hours waiting for a new Con activity so you just chew them off bit by bit . |
| 22 | And I wondered why there was n't and I 'd been sitting there for ages , twenty five past five is the appointment . |