Example sentences of "[verb] there for the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were left on the car park , so people knew they were parked there for the night . |
| 2 | Martin Martin notes that on a small rocky island to the south of Skye there is ‘ a great quantity of scurvey-grass , of an extraordinary size , and very thick ; the natives eat it frequently , as well boiled as raw : two of them told me that they happened to be confined there for the space of thirty hours , by a contrary wind ; and being without victuals , fell to eating this scurvey-grass , and finding it of a sweet taste , far different from the land scurvey-grass , they ate a large basketful of it , which did abundantly satisfy their appetites until their return home ’ . |
| 3 | In recent years , ex-students have achieved rapid prominence : Ian Davenport , Fiona Rae and Damien Hirst were shortlisted for the Turner Prize in the last two years , while enough of the young neo-conceptual artists dominating the scene ( represented in the Saatchi Collection ; for instance ) studied there for the style to be referred to as ‘ the Goldsmiths ’ phenomenon ’ . |
| 4 | When they crested a wooded hill shortly before sunset and saw cultivated fields stretching down towards a small village in the distance it took all her will-power not to beg that they stop there for the night . |
| 5 | Leaving the punchbowl lying there for the clearup people to find in the morning , Wayne followed her . |
| 6 | He stays there for the hour or so that is necessary for all the tadpoles to emerge and then returns to his hole . |
| 7 | He was still in bed and felt like staying there for the rest of the day . |
| 8 | Harvey was staying there for the weekend . |
| 9 | not going to bed when asked ; not staying there for the night . |
| 10 | How do you feel about staying there for the night ? |
| 11 | ‘ We called at the Barclays on the way down , and he was staying there for the week-end . |
| 12 | ‘ We 'll stop there for the night , Brother . |
| 13 | But the sheaf was always cut The last sheaf was cut then it was er put in the barn and kept there for the year and |
| 14 | The bands started playing around 11 in the evening and , basically , people did n't go there for the music but to get a sleep if they lived too far out from central London to get home after the tubes had closed down for the night . |
| 15 | The only thing they wanted to hear was that the prophet had said that everyone could go to Zap Zone and stay there for the rest of their natural lives . |
| 16 | And you had to get out on the floor that catered for your particular dominant moral propensity , and stay there for the whole of Eternity . |
| 17 | This is partly I suppose what made us seem like a destination to him ; he was in that simple sense ready to arrive , ready to get somewhere and rest there for the night . |
| 18 | Her years in London bad merely strengthened her desire to live there for the rest of her life , and while she was there her mother seemed , most of the time , to be no more that a dreadful past sorrow , endured and survived . |
| 19 | So they 've kept that tradition so we go there for the colours , and they provide a palette each year , er that 's the ninety one ninety two . |
| 20 | WILLIAM SHAWCROSS , opposite page , never lived in Vietnam , but went there for The Sunday Times six times between 1972 and 1983 . |
| 21 | I went there for the opening and I 'm really proud to be associated with water because I think it 's I think it 's a wonderful piece of engineering and excellent . |
| 22 | Let's have a realistic attitude : Batty went there for the money . |
| 23 | I went there for the clothing , because Antoinette wanted me to take photographs . |
| 24 | Added to that , there was something about the Wartberg works that I found soothing the first time I went there for the interview . |
| 25 | And we went there for the Christmas one did n't we ? |
| 26 | or if they were going to the university they would n't of gone there for the interview |
| 27 | Either way , the change sits there for the reader , fascinating , not to be ignored . |
| 28 | He did n't want to go to Switzerland : if he did go , the chances were that he would be interned there for the rest of the war . |
| 29 | William Green came to live in Ambleside in 1800 , when he retired from surveying and map making , and painted there for the rest of his life . |
| 30 | But France adds : ‘ Some can expect to remain there for the rest of their lives . |