Example sentences of "there for a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | 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 . |
| 32 | She felt as if she were not really there , as if she had not really been there for a long time . |
| 33 | He told me he had been there for a long time dying . |
| 34 | If the child shows a habit of prolonged crying then instead of expecting him or her to sit there for a long period of time , the first break in crying after a few minutes should be taken by the parent as an opportunity to allow the child to get up . |
| 35 | ‘ 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 . |
| 36 | Sat there for a long time , her mind blank . |
| 37 | they made the area around the reactor a non living area , the problem is of course people that have lived there for a long time do n't want to move and so over |
| 38 | Yeah , and we lived there for a long time did n't you , you stayed in that house for a long , long time |
| 39 | ‘ I was there for a long time , but I ca n't remember anyone visiting me . |
| 40 | The atmosphere was not exactly lively but I continued to have lunch there for a long time because she was extremely kind and the food was good . |
| 41 | Er although most people think it 's been there for a long time , it has n't . |
| 42 | I lay there for a long time thinking about that , the loud insistence of the Mexican music from across the way drumming in my ears and gradually merging into the crashing ice of layering floes as my mind drifted into a fantasy of trekking with Iris Sunderby towards the dim outline of an icicle-festooned ghost of a ship , the man at the helm towering like a giant question mark over my jet-lagged brain . |
| 43 | She stood there for a long time , thinking the whole thing out . |
| 44 | 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 . |
| 45 | She stayed there for a long time . |
| 46 | The social dimension of the Community has been there for a long time . |
| 47 | He stayed there for a long time . |
| 48 | " 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 . |
| 49 | We all think it 's going to stay there for a long time and , and there are varieties now , bred specially to be immune from er T M V and er , we use things like Counter or Curabell , or one of my favourites of course Shirley . |
| 50 | And er the trainer on medical practices has been out there for a long long time doing this so there 's a lot a wealth of experience there . |
| 51 | Aha this was a man who had been a joiner there for a long time . |
| 52 | He stayed there for a long time , until he was sure that the dogs had gone , then he came out . |
| 53 | Have n't seen Dan in there for a long time , I thought he 'd left Lionel and gone off to get a a highly lucrative job somewhere You do n't somehow expect to see a , a young man with a university degree working in your local green grocer do you ? |
| 54 | got nice er double decker bus type thing with a video player on and all that , mind you it should do really cos they 're on there for a long time |
| 55 | I mean these have n't just been put here , they 've been there for a long time ! |
| 56 | Been in there for a long time are n't they ? |
| 57 | 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 . |
| 58 | erm many people came to Kuwait to work for a short term and after a while they realised it 's fine so they continued to stay there for a long time , and that is the haven that we were talking about . |
| 59 | The second half proved a nightmare as the visitors hit the first three baskets to take the lead for the first time and stay there for a 7670 victory . |
| 60 | 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 . |