Example sentences of "[verb] there for about [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We rehearsed there for about two weeks — it was about 90 degrees in there ! ’ |
| 2 | I must have sat there for about half an hour or more . |
| 3 | I think it 's the first birdie I 've made there for about nine years , ’ he said . |
| 4 | I only worked there for about two months , I was so tired I was like a zombie . |
| 5 | So we 'll go , gon na go there for about seven , it starts at half seven come home that night . |
| 6 | I was on the circular sa saw there for about eight or ten years . |
| 7 | We got there for about half past twelve in the afternoon . |
| 8 | We got there for about ten to six . |
| 9 | I was only born there and I lived there for about six months and then got taken out . |
| 10 | You just got but I 'll have to go there for about three years . |
| 11 | In those days , scarlet fever victims had to go to the Isolation Hospital just outside the town , and remain there for about six weeks , until all the affected skin had peeled off . |
| 12 | I was just sitting there for about five minutes then she got up , then she , ooh , sat down , then she got up . |
| 13 | It 's been sitting there for about three months . |
| 14 | I do n't suppose anything else out of the ordinary has happened there for about five hundred years , so the local people should be full of it for weeks . ’ |
| 15 | We pulled into Coventry police station and instead of going to a cafe , as we had hoped , we got shut in one cell and left there for about two hours with the most revolting sandwiches you 've ever seen in your life . |
| 16 | I sat there for about ten minutes and then I came out . |
| 17 | They stayed there for about twenty minutes , walked where once there had been fear and intimidation , tried to imagine it as it had been , wondered who 'd died there , whose dreams had been shattered . |
| 18 | He remained there for about two years before returning to England in July 1657 to take up a position as mathematics tutor to Joscelyne Percy , son of Algernon Percy , tenth Earl of Northumberland [ q.v. ] , at Petworth , an appointment which seems to have been due to the influence of the Puritan reformer Samuel Hartlib [ q.v . ] . |
| 19 | I never said anything then he er I could see he 'd gone cos he just stood there for about ten minutes like th and everybody else was working , he just stood there like this for about ten minutes by the rack see him doing nothing I never said nothing he come charging through with a rack and knocked all the pallet over what they just stacked up with fifty boxes on so we had to make that right and he stacked a load of L T M boxes which are temperamental anyway and he had n't pulled the wrap tight so as soon the bloke lift them up with the forklift , they fell all over ! |