Example sentences of "there for a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Sat there for a long time , her mind blank . |
| 32 | 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 |
| 33 | Yeah , and we lived there for a long time did n't you , you stayed in that house for a long , long time |
| 34 | ‘ I was there for a long time , but I ca n't remember anyone visiting me . |
| 35 | 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 . |
| 36 | Er although most people think it 's been there for a long time , it has n't . |
| 37 | 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 . |
| 38 | She stood there for a long time , thinking the whole thing out . |
| 39 | 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 . |
| 40 | She stayed there for a long time . |
| 41 | The social dimension of the Community has been there for a long time . |
| 42 | He stayed there for a long time . |
| 43 | " 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 . |
| 44 | 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 . |
| 45 | 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 . |
| 46 | Aha this was a man who had been a joiner there for a long time . |
| 47 | He stayed there for a long time , until he was sure that the dogs had gone , then he came out . |
| 48 | 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 ? |
| 49 | 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 |
| 50 | I mean these have n't just been put here , they 've been there for a long time ! |
| 51 | Been in there for a long time are n't they ? |
| 52 | 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 . |
| 53 | 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 . |
| 54 | And of course when you was er was n't on guard duty at the f early evening , course there used to be used to pop into the Peel and have a couple of halves or some would have a pint and there was a chap in , in the Home , Home Guard he , he used to be able to play the piano so we used to have a singsong in there for a social , you know . |
| 55 | ‘ 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 . |
| 56 | 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 … |
| 57 | Cursing and gasping , he lay there for a full five minutes , the surprisingly intact fish by his side . |
| 58 | Then we bury the toad in an ant-hill ; and it 's there for a full month , till the moon is at the full . |
| 59 | Well I think we have to stop there for a little while because it 's nine o'clock , and I 've just got erm a few more pictures to show you later on so if we have a short break now , I think the coffee ladies are ready . |
| 60 | You sit there , then you get up and you walk to one end of your cell , which is n't very far , stand there for a little while , then you walk back , look out the window , and all the thoughts go through your mind — I could be out there , your children , friends , what you 'd be doing if you was out there . |