Example sentences of "there was [adv] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | eleven forty six , he 's got them inside , I think I told you about this did n't I ? , and I was inside helping them out like , he was outside , he did n't have his gas mask , we were doing the things , like M B C stuff , and I 'm inside and he said right you will each go to a post , where inside this tent , each to go to er , erm , cos there was six people inside and like there was six posts , he said you each got to a post inside the tent and on the you will pick up the tent , and I new what was coming , done it before sort of thing and erm , were all in M B C stuff cos there 's still lots of gas , but there was n't for very long , and he said right on the you will , er he just said , we picked it up right , were all fucking all fucking I said go on then , |
| 2 | It would not go anywhere ; there was nowhere for it to go . |
| 3 | Dot thought about that place where they 'd visited him long ago , with soldiers guarding the main gate , and long low buildings surrounded by grass clipped so flat there was nowhere for a running man to hide . |
| 4 | There was nowhere for us to put our belongings . |
| 5 | Having secured miners ' place at the top of the manual wages league , there was nowhere for that economism to go . |
| 6 | By the time they returned to the table for the Christmas pudding John Harbour had moved and there was nowhere for her to sit except beside O'Hara . |
| 7 | There was n't much space along here , and he could no longer rely on people taking one look and then getting out of his way because there was nowhere for them to go . |
| 8 | There was nowhere for him to put his feet . |
| 9 | They had not been asked to sit down and indeed there was nowhere for them to do so . |
| 10 | Nevertheless , they contain persuasive evidence to indicate that there was more for his people to do , and talk about , that there was more fun , than there is now in some parts of urban Scotland . |
| 11 | In a secondary sort of way she knew that , beyond the opportunity to please and placate Maman , there was more for her to give if she should eat the horrible spinach . |
| 12 | Perhaps you used to go and pawn the husbands suits or a anything like that till the following Saturday or Friday and fetch them out you see , and that cos there was very for people in them days , I mean they did n't get a deal of help from anywhere . |
| 13 | They but they do n't know what caused that fire er they reckon it was an electrical fault from the generator that er supplied the it was a s a fifty watt bulb in each room and there was mainly for the radio . |