Example sentences of "[verb] there for [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Late one evening in 1958 Alfred Cobban telephoned me to see if I would consider going to Cumberland Lodge , in Windsor Great Park , to work there for three years as Director of Studies . |
| 2 | ‘ We talked of the extraordinary fact of Lady Grange 's being sent to St Kilda , and confined there for several years , without any means of relief . ’ |
| 3 | My father had proceeded to stand there for some moments , saying nothing , merely holding open the door . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 ) . |
| 6 | Some species will swim there for two seasons , others for up to five . |
| 7 | When she was found they reckoned she 'd been lying there for three hours . |
| 8 | Police said an astonished eyewitness saw Mr Saggers crash on to the roof of the Nissan Micra , lie there for 15 seconds , then get up , brush himself down , and walk away . |
| 9 | Although we have been going there for 10 years the excitement of seeing all our friends will never ever die and I hope it is going to stay a good , clean Holiday site for many years . |
| 10 | Christopher had obviously been going there for some years . |
| 11 | Soon after the early death of his father in 1829 , Israel appears to have become a clerk in an uncle 's bank in Göttingen , remaining there for ten years . |
| 12 | I mean , there 's no fun in sitting there saying ‘ we 're not going to be able to do Bloxham Primary School to replace the temporary buildings they 've had there for nineteen years ’ ; that gives nobody any joy , but in terms of priorities , it was one that was felt er did not have that prior , the same priority as some of the others . |
| 13 | The story was an apparently true one concerning a certain butler who had travelled with his employer to India and served there for many years maintaining amongst the native staff the same high standards he had commanded in England . |
| 14 | He served there for many years , ultimately becoming chairman . |
| 15 | Jean has been teaching there for 24 years . |
| 16 | The needle crept steadily up to Mach .99 and hung there for several seconds . |
| 17 | Just before Christmas the family went to Versailles ( 4 ) , staying there for two weeks . |
| 18 | I used to work with him in my mother 's shop — he worked there for twenty-five years , until he died a few years ago . |
| 19 | Should the project go ahead , spent fuel would be stored in a series of air-cooled concrete vaults and kept there for fifty years , after which the company would decide whether it was to be reprocessed or buried . |
| 20 | If she sat beside him her head would loll onto his shoulder and stay there for long moments . |
| 21 | Stay there for five nights for £125 ( includes welcome glass of sherry and refreshment tray , full English breakfast and 3-course dinner ) . |
| 22 | It might also cause the price of oil to soar above $50 a barrel and stay there for some months . |
| 23 | Stock options are not much use as incentives if the price at which they are exercisable is dauntingly out of reach , so IBM Corp is offering a new stock option plan for mid-to-senior level executives — chairman Louis Gerstner offered the plan due to concern ‘ about keeping managers at IBM and motivated ’ : the plan is aimed at the tier of about 1,200 managers just below the most senior level , will offer new options for old ones that were exercisable at prices ranging from $89 to $169 ; the new options are exercisable at $47.88 , and managers will have to swap anywhere from 2.5 to 10 old options for one new one , depending on the original option price ; the options are exercisable after two years and the price must rise 50% above the $47.88 level to $71.82 and stay there for 30 days ; only 50% of the options can be exercised the first year , and 25% for each year after , but the terms do not look particularly attractive . |
| 24 | The mess lay there for two days . |
| 25 | He lay there for several hours , sleeping fitfully , having occasional nightmares , trying to galvanise himself into getting up , and failing because of the absolute exhaustion that appeared to have gripped his limbs . |
| 26 | There are sites where it is not only possible to visit and see the reconstructions , but also to take part in activities simulating the way people lived on that site in the past , or even to live there for several days to get some sort of impression of the way of life . |
| 27 | He was struck there for four hours with Park Service rescue helicopters buzzing around , throwing him ropes . |
| 28 | A similar effort can be seen in the ukaz of 1797 by which the Tsar Paul ordered the admission to the College of Foreign Affairs of thirty young men who were to be trained there for diplomatic careers . |
| 29 | ( Hence , notably in ‘ Gerontion ’ , Eliot 's ability to approximate and even conform to Jacobean blank verse , yet to depart from it smoothly when he pleased. ) Pound 's verse on the contrary was , at least after Homage to Sextus Propertius , free , not ‘ freed ’ : the rhythms that he sought and attained either had never appeared before in the language , or else had not appeared there for many centuries . |
| 30 | He was crazy about New York and went there for long weekends . |