Example sentences of "[to-vb] there for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well we had er , th there always used to be one man aboard the dumb hopper , wh they used to leave there for Monday morning and they used to p him , a man with him . |
| 2 | The north London accent is exactly the same I used to live there for years . |
| 3 | To labour there for Room for next Year 's Corn . |
| 4 | The only available slipway that could take Venturous was at Stornoway and we made arrangements to call there for repairs . |
| 5 | The day I came here I 'd gone down to Age Concern — I used to go there for meetings and bingo — and I told them I was n't stopping because I 'd no money . |
| 6 | And er he used to go there for meat but he used to buy two lots , one for his o his own place and one for the farm he had you see . |
| 7 | In reception they put you in a little cubicle like a wardrobe and you have to sit there for hours . |
| 8 | They do , they think people did it to me so I 'm gon na do it to them they just do it as a way of getting back , it 's not is this what people do , they know it 's not right they just do it because they think well we had to sit there for hours on look out so they can too . |
| 9 | Luciano Leggio , the Sicilian capo who , according to Miss Sterling , claims controls most of the world 's heroin trade , has languished behind bars since 1974 and is likely to stay there for life . |
| 10 | Esther had already whetted his appetite , and it was close enough to his parents ' home for him to return there for lunch each day . |
| 11 | In fact , maintenance was carried out there and in later years the basement was used as a rifle range for the staff and brass bands used to rehearse there for competitions at the Crystal Palace . |