Example sentences of "there for a [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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1 | Been there for a hundred years have n't they ? |
2 | He sat there for a few minutes . |
3 | Stay there for a few minutes and you will begin to experience one of several sensations : it may be a slight breeze , or perhaps a tingling sensation , heat ( especially in the palms ) , static or even a magnetic pull . |
4 | The sudden change of colour on the wall had upset its sense of direction and it buzzed about angrily and eventually it came into the porch where I was sitting and it stayed there for a few minutes and then went outside searching the wall again for the entrance . |
5 | The British Museum was still one unit , containing both natural history and works of art , and there were posts there for a few naturalists . |
6 | Hold them there for a few moments ( see Fig. 11 ) . |
7 | He sat there for a few moments inhaling the smoke . |
8 | And , miraculously , there was little resistance and I stared in disbelief as the great organ disappeared gloriously and wonderfully from sight I was right behind it with my arm , probing frantically away up to the shoulder as I rotated my wrist again and again till both uterine cornua were fully involuted Ben I was certain beyond doubt that everything was back in place I lay there for a few moments , my arm still deep inside the sow , my forehead resting on the floor . |
9 | Jessamy stood there for a few moments , staring at his retreating back . |
10 | He stood there for a few moments . |
11 | Yeah , erm when we went in there for a few times used to get headaches and that . |
12 | I 'll be there for a few hours . ’ |
13 | It seemed , as her mother would have said , ‘ a crime ’ to waste a beautiful afternoon in a stuffy cinema , but she might be able to shed her troubles there for a few hours . |
14 | ‘ I had to get away from there for a few hours . |
15 | ‘ We were only there for a few weeks . |
16 | Anyway , after they 'd gone , I just hobbled round to me mates and stayed there for a few weeks . |
17 | ‘ Well , ’ said Li Shai Tung , brightening , ‘ why not take Jelka there for a few weeks ? ’ |
18 | ‘ = and they were going to stay there for a few weeks until their faces were off the front pages and they could tiptoe away . |
19 | But she has n't been there for a few weeks now so I think she might be ill . |
20 | She sat there for a few seconds , then heard a voice softly calling her name . |
21 | The pump ‘ pinned us there for a few seconds before the other lads got it off ’ . |
22 | He remained there for a few seconds then slowly got to his feet and moved to the door leading into the hallway . |
23 | She left it there for a few seconds , then restored it to its previous position . |
24 | I 'd like you to put up there for a few days , and try to scrape acquaintance with her . |
25 | Leave it there for a few days , preferably in wet weather . |
26 | He left them there for a few days , checking that the wasps still kept returning to their burrows . |
27 | Edouard said he 'd been obliged to keep an elderly English woman there for a few days , but she 'd been slipping out . ’ |
28 | In contrast to some other low-income countries in Africa , most children do eventually get to primary school and stay there for a few years . |
29 | The owners of Land 's End are experts at the game and my friend Des Hannigan , who 's been working as a journalist down there for a few years , tells me they spray press releases at the local media with mad abandon . |
30 | After we had lived there for a few years , we wanted to buy it and do it up , so we asked my College for a mortgage . |