Example sentences of "be there for a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm but they seemed to be there for a specific purpose , but the normal day to day |
| 2 | ‘ She told the doctor at the orphanage , ‘ If I 'm going to go to England for a short time I must be careful not to give too much of my love , but if I 'm going to be there for a long time I can give all the love I can ’ , ’ Mike says . |
| 3 | If I was outside , she said she could telephone me every day for nothing , if I gave her the number of a phone box and arranged to be there for a certain time … |
| 4 | Do you have to be there for a certain amount of time ? |
| 5 | I 'll be there for a few hours . ’ |
| 6 | Been there for a hundred years have n't they ? |
| 7 | She felt as if she were not really there , as if she had not really been there for a long time . |
| 8 | He told me he had been there for a long time dying . |
| 9 | Er although most people think it 's been there for a long time , it has n't . |
| 10 | The social dimension of the Community has been there for a long time . |
| 11 | " Signs of a coming plateau have been there for a long time and are now getting better and better " , according to independent consultant Richard Kimberlin . |
| 12 | I mean these have n't just been put here , they 've been there for a long time ! |
| 13 | It 's their intention to leave the boat station there , but as a boat hiring station only , and to let rent that to somebody , not to have boat building enterprises , not to have a car park , not to have a chandlery and so on which was put there by the person whose who used to own it , and we will recoup all of that money from renting that boat station so it can be run as a boat hiring station again , and from three or four of the moorings that are will have been there for a long time , with proper permission . |
| 14 | But she has n't been there for a few weeks now so I think she might be ill . |
| 15 | No it has n't been there for a little while British National Corpus I 've been carrying it around with me |
| 16 | ‘ They were there for a good couple of hours and when I left at around 2.00pm they were still interviewing players in the spare dressing rooms . ’ |
| 17 | It is doubtful if the material is there for a first-class combination . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ I think we 've got to help them because there is still a lot of poverty and the potential is there for a social explosion , ’ he says . |
| 19 | Then we bury the toad in an ant-hill ; and it 's there for a full month , till the moon is at the full . |
| 20 | ‘ I was there for a long time , but I ca n't remember anyone visiting me . |
| 21 | The possibility was there for a tremendous finish . |
| 22 | You knew for a fact that anyone in that world was there for a genuine reason , either because he could n't get a job doing anything else — which was probably the best reason — or for the love of it . |
| 23 | Yet what alternative was there for a female orator ? |
| 24 | Baird was there for a further two years before leaving in 1987 with chef Barry Forster , who had been offered the position of head chef at Longueville Manor on Jersey . |
| 25 | So a week later I moved in , and I was there for a year-and-a-half . |