Example sentences of "[pron] [vb base] there for a " in BNC.
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| 1 | I lay there for a long time unhappy and hardly noticing the daily noises of the block assembling round me . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | I lay there for a minute recovering my cool and then headed for the back door . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | I sit there for a second thinking , No , it ca n't be … |
| 7 | I stand there for a second , before stepping back . |
| 8 | And I could put myself down as in case I get there for a day or two . |
| 9 | There 's a sort of metal fence I can sit on , so I rest there for a bit and watch the ducks and that . |
| 10 | We stand there for a second or two . |
| 11 | And they stop there for a bit , when they 've gone past the start . |