Example sentences of "there for " in BNC.
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| 1 | They went to Tanzania for 17 years following Orton 's sacking as a cabinet minister after a dispute with the President , and lived there for 17 years . |
| 2 | But they will be there for long enough , long enough . |
| 3 | They were in there for a long time . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | I was there for about three and a half years . |
| 6 | ‘ I really hope there 's something out there for you . ’ |
| 7 | They will remain there for up to ten weeks , before being brought into a warm greenhouse so we can force them into flower . |
| 8 | Work at relaxing your muscles , so that the stretch is at a maximum , then hold it there for around 30 seconds . |
| 9 | The mess lay there for two days . |
| 10 | Esther had already whetted his appetite , and it was close enough to his parents ' home for him to return there for lunch each day . |
| 11 | He never realised , on that eventful day , that she would ‘ come into my arms ’ ( as he put it ) and stay there for so many years , adding in no small degree to the legends of love which keep the world sane and hopeful . |
| 12 | If she sat beside him her head would loll onto his shoulder and stay there for long moments . |
| 13 | She went there for her weekly ecstasy , her Sunday ride . |
| 14 | What was I doing admiring you for being so well-behaved , sitting there for hours content to have your arm round me ? |
| 15 | I had to go down there for the preview and then go down and bid . |
| 16 | This another critical operation : a gap will be there for good . |
| 17 | It was there for all to see — BR became less of a corporate business , more an overlord for the sectors who were expected to find their own feet with or without government subsidy . |
| 18 | If the right foot remains there for several bars , the arms will be held still , but as soon as the left moves in front the arms will change . |
| 19 | The gear had held and I hung there for a moment , taking stock . |
| 20 | He and Liena conversed for a while before he announced his decision to wait there for the return of Tony and Ferdy ( the Germans ) , and Dave the American , asking me to take care of Liena on the way down . |
| 21 | Green grass and fresh fields are there for the taking . |
| 22 | But what is there for Porfiry to do ? |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | ( 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 . |
| 25 | If a great opera such as this has difficulty holding a place in the repertoire , what hope is there for the merely excellent ? |
| 26 | ‘ The thought of not being there for them as they grew up was too much to bear , ’ she said . |
| 27 | They went ahead in the 30th minute when Tommy Gaynor skipped away from a couple of tackles and let fly from 25 yards : no sign of gratitude there for Eoin Hand , Huddersfield 's manager , who had helped along his fellow-Irishman 's career in the early days at Limerick . |
| 28 | He is still there for me . |
| 29 | It 's important that we do n't lose but we wo n't be going there for a draw . ’ |
| 30 | Some refugees in the embassy gardens said they had been there for days , but had not boarded the sealed refugee trains travelling through East Germany to Bavaria . |