Example sentences of "[noun prp] [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 | 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 . |
| 5 | Tod stood there for a moment , staring at the clock 's face , and then the mirror 's face , with a sallow smile . |
| 6 | 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 . |