Example sentences of "[vb past] there for a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One night , later in their affair , O woke up in the middle of one of his long and noisy dreams and lay there for a long time looking at Boy 's face as he slept . |
| 2 | Cursing and gasping , he lay there for a full five minutes , the surprisingly intact fish by his side . |
| 3 | There were a lot of people there who felt seriously about what they were fighting for but people went there for a good fight really , they had n't been able to show any aggression for the last two years . |
| 4 | And I went there for a little bit , and then we moved on , moved off from there , do you see ? |
| 5 | ‘ Then one night Hugo and Jebb ( The Mouse 's twanging Boothby twins ) went there for a quiet beer and the DJ was going , ‘ I 've heard that a couple of Jacob 's Mouse are here and I want to tell them to get off their high horse and come down to play here . |
| 6 | Many people claim that Frederick was imprisoned by the Turks , and that after his release he returned to Kaiserslautern and lived there for a long time . |
| 7 | Yeah , and we lived there for a long time did n't you , you stayed in that house for a long , long time |
| 8 | They sat there for a long time , drinking their milk , gazing out at the grey drizzle while the Bārakotes told them stories about their home in the south , about the brightly coloured saris that the women wear , about the bazaars , and all the shops and stalls with beads and bangles , oranges , lemons , spices , chilli . |
| 9 | Sat there for a long time , her mind blank . |
| 10 | She sat there for a long time rocking backwards and forwards and giving herself up to howling , letting her gasps for breath shake her to pieces and leave her shuddering . |
| 11 | And they sat in the car with the windows down in the freezing dawn and they watched the distant city lights going out under the dawn at five in the morning , they sat there for a full half hour , looking , and thinking how beautiful the city looked at this time and at this distance … |
| 12 | She stayed there for a long time . |
| 13 | He stayed there for a long time . |
| 14 | He stayed there for a long time , until he was sure that the dogs had gone , then he came out . |
| 15 | She stood there for a long time , thinking the whole thing out . |