Example sentences of "[verb] be [vb pp] there for " in BNC.
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| 1 | The tower was demolished by lightning in 1821 and since the present Abbey clock tower was erected on the site in 1822 the papingo has been placed there for every contest . |
| 2 | As for the more general question of overseas reprocessing at Dounreay , I emphasise again that spent nuclear fuel has been reprocessed there for more than 30 years — safely and without any adverse effects on the environment . |
| 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 | She 'd been sent there for contempt of court by Essex magistrates when she refused to answer questions about her personal finances in a poll tax case . |
| 5 | She 'd been summoned there for refusing to pay a poll tax surcharge of £14.52 . |
| 6 | In Ballymacarrett , there was less unemployment , traditional gender roles were more clearly differentiated , the population was resident in traditional streets of terraced houses , and for the most part it had been established there for generations . |
| 7 | I checked behind the wall ‘ phone to see if any mail had been stuffed there for me but , as usual , there was nothing . |
| 8 | Bars that had been put there for their protection when the room had been a nursery for the four girls : Daisy , Ethel , Lily , Amy , the little daughters of Alfred Greenwood , founder of a chain of grocery shops serving the clothing trade of Leeds , in the West Riding of Yorkshire . |
| 9 | An imitation Everest base camp had been pitched there for the benefit of press , potential sponsors and team members in need of some high-altitude practice . |
| 10 | This pattern has been changing ; there is a tendency now for girls to keep their babies , and over the last year or so girls have been sent there for a variety of other reasons , but essentially so that they can be assessed on their ability to care for their child . |
| 11 | Records have been kept there for two hundred years . |
| 12 | And when she 's been confined there for days you sometimes have n't bothered with a towel . |