Example sentences of "[v-ing] there for [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Time was impossible to measure down in Chard — it always is when you 're a child — and I remember one day chatting to Uncle Cyril and feeling that I 'd been living there for an age . |
| 2 | Just pausing there for a moment , can you point out to Mr Inspector where that er building was to be developed , Mrs ? |
| 3 | Leaving the punchbowl lying there for the clearup people to find in the morning , Wayne followed her . |
| 4 | It 's important that we do n't lose but we wo n't be going there for a draw . ’ |
| 5 | They may be absolutely fine , and if you 're going there for a number of years , you 've probably got no er problem with them , but of course the smaller the organization the simpler is , it is for other erm factors to creep in . |
| 6 | so I 'm thinking of staying there for a while |
| 7 | Charles continued to live with her in Cambridge , commuting by car to Ipswich to teach his classes , and staying there for a night or two each week . |
| 8 | The shares were six times subscribed and opened at 193p , staying there for a second or two before going decisively through 200p ; at the year end they stood at 218p , a rise of 70% on the issue price , and were valued on a historic price/earnings multiple of 30.8 ( and yield of 1.4% ) . |
| 9 | He was still in bed and felt like staying there for the rest of the day . |
| 10 | Harvey was staying there for the weekend . |
| 11 | not going to bed when asked ; not staying there for the night . |
| 12 | How do you feel about staying there for the night ? |
| 13 | ‘ We called at the Barclays on the way down , and he was staying there for the week-end . |
| 14 | Well , I think perhaps what we 'll do cos you 've missed quite a few of these out so I think what we 'll do erm is to leave that what you 're doing there for a moment we 'll go through this mark this and the one 's you have n't done we 'll do so that you 've got this one straight . |
| 15 | It did n't frighten her ; she merely disliked the physical act of getting on a plane and sitting there for the duration of the journey . |
| 16 | You 've been sitting there for an hour watching the fire almost go out . |
| 17 | Oh he might be away for thre , cos I know he had golf at the Belfry this week , and then when he comes back he 's being picked up by a car to take him to the Belfry again , cos we 're entertaining there for a weekend 's golf . |
| 18 | She swung herself off the bed and padded , naked , across to the wardrobe , hesitating there for a second . |
| 19 | Stealing from the camp one night with only his rifle and iron rations , wading the river at the border , finding a sympathetic ship 's captain to take him to Sweden , working there for a while and then making his way down through Poland and Germany and the rest of Europe , village by village , shtetl by shtetl , always moving west , America the ultimate goal , until he reached Cork . |
| 20 | After parting from Madame Gebrec , Melissa returned to the library with the intention of working there for the rest of the afternoon , but time and again she found her mind straying from the accounts of former religious wars and the acts of unbelievable cruelty committed by both sides to the more recent clash of ideologies which , it seemed to her , differed from the old in little but the relative sophistication of the weaponry . |