Example sentences of "there for [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Anyway , I hope that Spare Rib always continues to be there for all women , and some of us do appreciate the entertaining , interesting and informative magazine Spare Rib is . |
| 2 | On the quay opposite the Cafe de la Rotonde you 'll see poor Annamese boys parading there for such men , with rice powder on their faces . |
| 3 | For him the Dutch Texel is the original Texel ; it comes from the island of Texel and has been bred there for many generations . |
| 4 | I left them there for many hours , and when they were cold again , I found that they were hard and strong . |
| 5 | I lay there for many hours , but at last I fell asleep , and in my small , helpless boat , dreamed of home and the Admiral Benbow . |
| 6 | At the same time Miss Butterworth was employing women at the Flax Home Industry House at Grasmere and work continued there for many years . |
| 7 | The story was an apparently true one concerning a certain butler who had travelled with his employer to India and served there for many years maintaining amongst the native staff the same high standards he had commanded in England . |
| 8 | The firm traded there for many years and a number of well-known craftsmen served their apprenticeships at the works . |
| 9 | But perhaps the greatest satisfaction is the knowledge that you have created something of the beauty that is going to be there for many years . |
| 10 | It was considered inhumane to move out the large number of ‘ old long-stay ’ residents who had been there for many years . |
| 11 | These lines had been there for many years when Ernest Jarvis bought the house in the twenties , the Metropolitan Railway having been extended from Swiss Cottage to West Hampstead in 1879 . |
| 12 | The money deposited in England , Switzerland and other parts of Europe would remain there for many years until Samuel was free again to travel through a liberated continent . |
| 13 | Shortly afterwards we moved to , and we lived there for many years . |
| 14 | It was a remarkable education for all of us , including me , who has lived there for many years . |
| 15 | He served there for many years , ultimately becoming chairman . |
| 16 | have n't been there for many years |
| 17 | ( Hence , notably in ‘ Gerontion ’ , Eliot 's ability to approximate and even conform to Jacobean blank verse , yet to depart from it smoothly when he pleased. ) Pound 's verse on the contrary was , at least after Homage to Sextus Propertius , free , not ‘ freed ’ : the rhythms that he sought and attained either had never appeared before in the language , or else had not appeared there for many centuries . |
| 18 | My father had proceeded to stand there for some moments , saying nothing , merely holding open the door . |
| 19 | In Kufra one policeman ( the senior customs officer ) was a stranger , though he had lived there for some decades ; in Tazarbu nearly all policemen were from one lineage ( Bilal ) , or had married into it ; the senior officer 's son was also in the force , a trainee under his father 's authority . |
| 20 | Most of the families in Rimswell , especially those concerned in agriculture , have lived there for some generations . |
| 21 | All one can say with any certainty is that the Pounds ( and probably the Yeatses also ) paid at least two visits to Sicily in these years , and that on at least one occasion — probably on more than one — they stayed there for some weeks , if not months . |
| 22 | Christopher had obviously been going there for some years . |
| 23 | In 1863 he died and the mills were leased to Reynolds and Allen , who remained there for some years . |
| 24 | After the car had been there for some years the defendant wished to convert the yard into a garage but was unable to communicate with the plaintiff . |
| 25 | This port was frequently a target for Iraqi attacks , if only because of the intermittently suspended Japanese-Iranian petrochemical plant which had been under construction there for some years . |
| 26 | Mr Fallon said a family renting a house valued at £25,000 , and entitled to the maximum price discount of 40pc because they had lived there for some years , could have a mortgage of £10,000 . |
| 27 | It might also cause the price of oil to soar above $50 a barrel and stay there for some months . |
| 28 | I waited out there for several minutes , and then Conchis stopped playing . |
| 29 | Not until she had been sitting there for several minutes did Isabel realise that no sound at all had come from her torn and bleeding lips . |
| 30 | The card and flowers were there for several hours . |