Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] there for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I lived there for eighteen months with someone I thought I loved , indeed who I did , do , no , did love . ’ |
| 2 | I lay there for many hours , but at last I fell asleep , and in my small , helpless boat , dreamed of home and the Admiral Benbow . |
| 3 | Anyway to finish that story about stopping and starting , I stopped there for fifty years and me mother was still alive when er when I at ninety three and when I retired in nineteen seventy nine , nineteen eighty I told me mum that I was finishing and she looked at me I told you that job would n't last and I , I , I mean I 'd done fifty years all but a few months . |
| 4 | I served there for thirteen year , became a chargehand eventually and eventually the f the firm folded up . |
| 5 | They said I could only stay one week , but I stayed there for two , and they did n't know . |
| 6 | I stayed there for five weeks and after another operation was pronounced ‘ partially sighted ’ enough to be registered as blind . |
| 7 | I stayed there for five years and was still drinking . |
| 8 | I worked at City Motors and I stayed there for seven years I had quite a few jobs before that but I liked that one . |
| 9 | I stayed there for some time and looked at the castle , and then I walked on through the forest for about an hour . |
| 10 | I stayed there for three days , until the snow began to melt , dripping in stealthy drops from my little roof . |
| 11 | So I decided at least I stood there for ten minutes which one should I take ? |
| 12 | Flying north from the island they spotted the vessels at 1215 , but almost at once were attacked by patrolling fighters , three Fulmars of 808 Squadron and three Skuas of 800 , reporting one of each type on their tail , which remained there for some twenty minutes . |
| 13 | She studied there for three years with Frederick Brown and Henry Tonks [ qq.v. ] , winning a certificate for figure drawing ( 1896–7 ) and the Melvill Nettleship prize for figure composition ( 1897–8 ) . |
| 14 | Well they perm your hair you know there for six pound . |
| 15 | In 1863 he died and the mills were leased to Reynolds and Allen , who remained there for some years . |
| 16 | She stayed there for three years and lost track of her sister during that time . |
| 17 | She stayed there for some time , the heavy depression that had been weighing her down ever since Marianne had appeared in her room soothed a little by the gentle singing of the river . |
| 18 | She remained there for four years , during which time she conducted researches on the optical properties of organic compounds . |
| 19 | She remained there for four years , confined to a cell that would allow her neither to sit nor lie down : it was closed by a large stone that could be moved only by Roger . |
| 20 | She was too shaken with sobs to risk driving so she sat there for two hours weeping her heart out while neighbours and passers-by studiously ignored her obvious distress . |
| 21 | The ninth bomber came out of a lightening sky at six o'clock exactly , and though she sat there for another hour , it was the last . |
| 22 | Erm er well everyone gets there for half six but it does n't exactly start till seven . |
| 23 | Shortly afterwards we moved to , and we lived there for many years . |
| 24 | We lived there for another four years , until it became too difficult for me to manage the stairs . |
| 25 | it was like Jersey , we lived there for twenty , twenty years did n't we ? |
| 26 | We got there for four . |
| 27 | Yeah we got there for ten o'clock and we had to wait till they 'd finished all the out-patients before they 'd let the in-patients . |
| 28 | We sit there for some time but I keep glancing up , and gradually become terrified that the man is somehow not dead or has become a zombie and is climbing back up the shaft towards us , to push the grating up and put his already rotting hands down and grab us both by the hair . |
| 29 | We sit there for half an hour perhaps and log one car , a few walkers , several cows , perhaps a few ghosts . |
| 30 | And er , we stopped there for some time and nothing happened and me dad says Gil ! |