Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] there for [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In those days , scarlet fever victims had to go to the Isolation Hospital just outside the town , and remain there for about six weeks , until all the affected skin had peeled off . |
| 2 | He ended up in Nairobi and lived there for quite a long time . |
| 3 | I 'd go to Tenerife and stay there for ever . |
| 4 | He never realised , on that eventful day , that she would ‘ come into my arms ’ ( as he put it ) and stay there for so many years , adding in no small degree to the legends of love which keep the world sane and hopeful . |
| 5 | We pulled into Coventry police station and instead of going to a cafe , as we had hoped , we got shut in one cell and left there for about two hours with the most revolting sandwiches you 've ever seen in your life . |