Example sentences of "there for [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Esther had already whetted his appetite , and it was close enough to his parents ' home for him to return there for lunch each day . |
| 2 | If they had bothered to get off their bums and ask some questions , they would have discovered that the pub in question was a regular haunt of the Parsons , who went there for lunch every Saturday on their way back from the supermarket . |
| 3 | Er but she 's a member and we went there for lunch and it was the ideal place , you know , cos there were n't any , many people around and so we had quite a nice lunch and erm whilst we were there we then had a drink in er in the bar and erm her the , the secretary of the club , a lady , came to talk to Barbara and she mentioned that she 'd seen her on Blind Date you see , and so I got to know more by listening to them two speaking er and er that 's where I learnt about er that . |
| 4 | You can eat anything there for lunch and I 'm going to put sandwiches and cake out for tea . |
| 5 | Yet they were not there for celebration , and there was neither gluttony nor drunkenness . |
| 6 | er they 'll be plenty of other people there for god sake , I mean |
| 7 | And er he used to go there for meat but he used to buy two lots , one for his o his own place and one for the farm he had you see . |
| 8 | It 's there for space exploration , and it 's there for education . |
| 9 | I like to think my name will be hanging there for prosperity . |
| 10 | I was just there for Type ninety , and he has a wall of books in his living room that — the shells are some kind of Danish wall system from nineteen fifty-five and it seemed , you know , that the shelves were slightly saggy , a few nicks and scrapes , so it 's not new looking at all . |
| 11 | Erm by nineteen forty eight erm the Communist Party had argued that three conditions had to be there for land reform to take place and that was that how that the area had to be militarily stable , the majority of peasants erm rich peasants had to be mobilized er had to want to be demanding land reform and the Party cadres there had to be adequate in numbers and quality . |
| 12 | Returns will be authorised at Denbigh Road and must be returned there for credit . |
| 13 | I went to see where , she puts lollipop in school like and I went to see exactly she 's supposed to start at quarter to twelve so I went round there for quarter to twelve about five past twelve when she , it 's like yours . |
| 14 | Erm , nothing Chair that I would want to refer to other than the , on page eleven we 're showing a figure there for management and support . |
| 15 | Up to 1871 palaeontological work was based in London and crates of specimens were sent there for identification . |
| 16 | The certainty that this particular music was being played directly at her and for her , that the fair man had seen her violin case and perhaps a look in her eyes of wistfulness , the fair man alone , for the guitarist seemed only there for support and back-up , decided her . |
| 17 | You were going to look at ways of classifying the short stories you 've been looking at , when y , sort of , to look at similarities between short stories , like which ones deal with husband and wife relationships , which ones are about loneliness , I mean , use your paper , it 's it 's only there for scrap paper , you have n't got to produce something that 's gon na be pinned up on the wall . |
| 18 | It 's there for space exploration , and it 's there for education . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | and then I used to stop at Jessie 's , you see , when I come home with the cart and leave the loaf of , loaf of bread then I used to go back , well , after tea and stop there for weekend , yeah . |
| 21 | We we he 's giving us free advertising in there for issue anyway |
| 22 | Luciano Leggio , the Sicilian capo who , according to Miss Sterling , claims controls most of the world 's heroin trade , has languished behind bars since 1974 and is likely to stay there for life . |
| 23 | The worst scars — on her legs — will probably be there for life . |
| 24 | Even though my children 's reading has long since moved on to Roald Dahl , C S Lewis and Judy Blume , the story ‘ template ’ is there , the dubious role models of their best-loved tales are firmly entrenched and I 'm beginning to wonder if they are there for life . |
| 25 | So you 're stuck there for life unless a young lady from the audience can help us out here ? |
| 26 | During the day he was at the power station and at weekends , reversing the normal peregrination , he was at his London flat , frequently staying there for Part of the week if he had a meeting in town . |
| 27 | You 've located there for year 's … ’ |
| 28 | Took it down there for mum . |
| 29 | Are they there for shelter ? |
| 30 | Since whatever admissions criteria are adopted the selection of some only of the applicants will necessarily result in defeating the parental preference of those who are rejected , what reason is there for Parliament to object to any given set of criteria being adopted ? |