Example sentences of "there for the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus , the squatter lost — and would have lost even had he been there for the twelve years . |
| 2 | I takes the lot in there for the lower orders , ’ said Sid . |
| 3 | When she just nodded shyly his hands came to her shoulders , warm , possessive hands that stayed right there for the two visitors to see . |
| 4 | They demanded that everybody get out of their way so they could launch their boat , while people who 'd been there for the best of the tide were already bringing their craft out . |
| 5 | We 're there for the Na-Nazi riots — but for too much of the time we 're not . |
| 6 | It would be a record label for their own music and for the struggling artists just waiting out there for the benevolent despotism of the Beatles to pluck them from obscurity . |
| 7 | Erm , and the other one is the registration and inspection , where in the current year we have access to the best part of sixty five thousand pounds from to meet registration inspection , and you 'll see in the additions list , that , that there is er , a bid in there for the ongoing costs of that . |
| 8 | In the house there for the sedate |
| 9 | The one that eluded him was that of the Association of Golf Writers which , asked to nominate who had done most for European golf , decided on the Walker Cup team that went to the United States and won the trophy there for the first time . |
| 10 | This is what strikes fear into the hearts of all but the most experienced , and has men playing there for the first time knocking at the knees . |
| 11 | It was at Lovell 's dinner-table that Coleridge eventually found Southey , and there for the first time that he met Lovell 's wife Mary and her eldest sister Sarah Fricker . |
| 12 | Linford was there for the first time . |
| 13 | One company director — then unconverted — whom I took there for the first time one Tuesday had this reaction : ‘ All my life I have been longing without knowing it to hear preaching like this . ’ |
| 14 | Jack seemed to realise she was there for the first time . |
| 15 | ‘ I suppose being at an emotional low I did actually take heroin there for the first time , ’ he said . |
| 16 | Have it there for the first month or something . |
| 17 | When you walk you wait there for the first time do n't you ? |
| 18 | Queen Victoria went there for the first , very influential time in 1889 , though even before that the surprisingly large English community in Pau had begun to colonize it , to such an extent that by the 1870s not only did the Church of England have congregations in Biarritz but they were already schismatic and the Archbishop of Canterbury had to travel out on a pastoral visit to try and stifle the factionalism . |
| 19 | So consequently every time I moved school , moved into different I had to fight me way there for the first week because I hated anyone to call me Ginger you see ? |
| 20 | At his death he was unknown as a poet ; on 8 December 1975 , the centenary of the wreck of the Deutschland , a plaque to his memory was unveiled in poets ' corner , Westminster Abbey , honouring a Roman Catholic there for the first time since John Dryden [ q.v . ] . |
| 21 | I remember my excitement when I had arrived there for the first time from St Aubyn 's . |
| 22 | Bet you never even noticed I was there for the first three years . " |
| 23 | Crawford returned to repertory work to be there for the first three months , appearing alongside stars such as Leo McKern , who had turned down two films and offers from the National Theatre and the Royal Shakespeare Company to go to Nottingham , and classical actor John Neville , who had just starred in Alfie on the London stage and was giving up 200-a-week West End rates for the 20 to 50 Playhouse level . |
| 24 | Our friendly policeman had gone but there were nurses there for the first time that I 'd seen , and even the odd doctor . |
| 25 | I had no idea of doing anything else but study there for the first three years after school , for which my hardworking and frugal parents had saved enough money . |
| 26 | Some 500 psychologists from all parts of the world meet in Scarborough next month when the British Psychological Society holds its conference there for the first time . |
| 27 | There were some boys out there for the first time and they were absolutely terrified . ’ |
| 28 | Will Carling , the captain of England , is travelling there for the first time and the selectors decided not to weigh him down with the cares of office . |
| 29 | I was taken there for the first time when I was six weeks old in a motor side car down from London to just within ten miles of Bury St Edmunds . |
| 30 | I can take it over there for the first service which is free anyway and I can take it back to Swansea for the others ca n't I ? |