Example sentences of "[verb] there for some [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | She went humming upstairs to clean the bathroom , while Winnie turned over in her mind a plan which had been lurking there for some time . |
2 | My father had proceeded to stand there for some moments , saying nothing , merely holding open the door . |
3 | And er , we stopped there for some time and nothing happened and me dad says Gil ! |
4 | Christopher had obviously been going there for some years . |
5 | Similarly , extensive pastures can be at some distance , since animals can be walked there and kept there for some time by herdsmen . |
6 | It might also cause the price of oil to soar above $50 a barrel and stay there for some months . |
7 | 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 . |
8 | This was unsuccessful , but fighting continued there for some time . |
9 | Most of the families in Rimswell , especially those concerned in agriculture , have lived there for some generations . |
10 | In Kufra one policeman ( the senior customs officer ) was a stranger , though he had lived there for some decades ; in Tazarbu nearly all policemen were from one lineage ( Bilal ) , or had married into it ; the senior officer 's son was also in the force , a trainee under his father 's authority . |
11 | Mr Fallon said a family renting a house valued at £25,000 , and entitled to the maximum price discount of 40pc because they had lived there for some years , could have a mortgage of £10,000 . |
12 | She had lived there for some time although it is not known where she lived before coming to Darlington . |
13 | There were signs that Sir Charles had stood there for some time . |
14 | He could not say when , but the horse dung and the faint indentations in the dry earth showed riders had stood there for some time . |
15 | Near the Salt Tower he found the gravel-strewn slush had been disturbed , indicating someone had stood there for some time . |
16 | I stayed there for some time and looked at the castle , and then I walked on through the forest for about an hour . |
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 | All one can say with any certainty is that the Pounds ( and probably the Yeatses also ) paid at least two visits to Sicily in these years , and that on at least one occasion — probably on more than one — they stayed there for some weeks , if not months . |
19 | In 1863 he died and the mills were leased to Reynolds and Allen , who remained there for some years . |
20 | Alcuin was resident among the Northumbrians in 790 and remained there for some time in the hope of influencing Aethelred , whose accession he welcomed , though evidently to no avail for shortly after he declared that he was working against injustice and that Aethelred 's attitude was not as he had hoped . |
21 | He remained there for some time . |
22 | Jack stood there for some time , staring at the repairs . |
23 | Tuan Ti Fo stood there for some time , staring at the door , the wicker basket resting lightly in his hand . |