Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] there for a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Will you and Jane wait there for a while until I 'm respectable again ? ’ |
| 2 | Fergus stood there for a moment . |
| 3 | Jessamy stood there for a few moments , staring at his retreating back . |
| 4 | The tiny room at the back of the shop was fitted with a trestle table and two forms and country people went there for a meal on market days . |
| 5 | There were a lot of people there who felt seriously about what they were fighting for but people went there for a good fight really , they had n't been able to show any aggression for the last two years . |
| 6 | Lot number seventy one Lot number seventy one seventy one there 's the stele showing there 's the carving showing there for a hundred and fifty pounds , at one fifty , one sixty , one seventy , at one hundred and seventy pounds , at one eighty offered , one ninety , two hundred now two hundred is bid and selling for two hundred , you all done ? |
| 7 | Following the thought of my hon. Friend the Member for Dartford ( Mr. Dunn ) , may I invite the Minister to come there for a walk with his dog on Christmas day to envisage the damage that the new road will cause ? |
| 8 | Preston sat there for a while stroking her and then , when he was sure that she was sleeping soundly , he crossed over to the window and lifted a corner of the curtain and peered cautiously out into the street . |
| 9 | Tod stood there for a moment , staring at the clock 's face , and then the mirror 's face , with a sallow smile . |
| 10 | The Modernists had enjoyed a brief life as a London group after Pound settled there for a dozen years in 1908 ; Bloomsbury was already one , first in Cambridge and later in London and Sussex , sharing not just a range of assumptions and convictions but an intimate web of social and amorous relations . |