Example sentences of "and [vb past] there for [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The needle crept steadily up to Mach .99 and hung there for several seconds . |
| 3 | Similarly , extensive pastures can be at some distance , since animals can be walked there and kept there for some time by herdsmen . |
| 4 | Alcuin was resident among the Northumbrians in 790 and remained there for some time in the hope of influencing Aethelred , whose accession he welcomed , though evidently to no avail for shortly after he declared that he was working against injustice and that Aethelred 's attitude was not as he had hoped . |
| 5 | It displaced The Smiths ' ‘ Strangeways Here We Come ’ in the independent charts and stayed there for several weeks . |