Example sentences of "[coord] [pron] was there for " in BNC.
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| 1 | So a week later I moved in , and I was there for a year-and-a-half . |
| 2 | So I erm , I erm , was put into the Royal Army Pay Corp and posted up to Barnet , North London and I was there for quite a while , we all transferred down to Winchester . |
| 3 | And I was there for the erm oh about fourteen months in all with the shooting . |
| 4 | And I was there for twenty five years . |
| 5 | I was waving but no-one would stop and I was there for nearly half an hour before a man pulled over and helped me . |
| 6 | Well er going back to when I started serving my time as an apprentice er I think I started with eleven shillings and I was there for about nine months when the manager come over and says to me he had been paying me short . |
| 7 | and I was there for nigh on two and a half years and er , then we moved from there to Germany |
| 8 | The awful thing is that the movies that I 've been involved with in the last erm few years have entailed my being abroad a great deal , and I was made in New York entirely and I was there for six or seven months , and the difficulty is that when you then make the movie and you take it round the world , you 're away for another three or four months and so you end up being out of the country for quite a long time , so I 've been nothing like as active with the university . |
| 9 | And he was there for quite a while . |
| 10 | ‘ There was no traffic for miles , but he looked right and left for about five minutes and then something did come along and he was there for ages . ’ |
| 11 | I mean that 's that 's one of his stock in trades he 's a superb volleyer of the ball and it was there for a second with a chance was there for a second . |
| 12 | What was one more thief in Southwark , and what was there for some of its people except snatching and pickpocketing ? |
| 13 | But I wa but I was there for a fortnight and when I came back I , you know it 's preparing for Synod just takes all the time we have somehow and I |