Example sentences of "[v-ing] there for the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Leaving the punchbowl lying there for the clearup people to find in the morning , Wayne followed her . |
| 2 | He was still in bed and felt like staying there for the rest of the day . |
| 3 | Harvey was staying there for the weekend . |
| 4 | not going to bed when asked ; not staying there for the night . |
| 5 | How do you feel about staying there for the night ? |
| 6 | ‘ We called at the Barclays on the way down , and he was staying there for the week-end . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |