Example sentences of "there for a [adj] " in BNC.

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1 If I was outside , she said she could telephone me every day for nothing , if I gave her the number of a phone box and arranged to be there for a certain time …
2 Do you have to be there for a certain amount of time ?
3 It 's only there for a certain amount of time .
4 You knew for a fact that anyone in that world was there for a genuine reason , either because he could n't get a job doing anything else — which was probably the best reason — or for the love of it .
5 The peninsula is peaceful and pretty now , and many go there for a gentle but gastronomic tour .
6 I always thought I 'd like to be stuck there for a dirty weekend . ’
7 The possibility was there for a tremendous finish .
8 Typist Mary Kupenda says : ‘ Such workplaces will be called brothels and men will flock there for a nice time ’ .
9 Yet what alternative was there for a female orator ?
10 Lot number seventy one Lot number seventy one seventy one there 's the stele showing there 's the carving showing there for a hundred and fifty pounds , at one fifty , one sixty , one seventy , at one hundred and seventy pounds , at one eighty offered , one ninety , two hundred now two hundred is bid and selling for two hundred , you all done ?
11 Been there for a hundred years have n't they ?
12 Road in Toten , that 's the A six double O five has got roadworks at the junction of Lane , some delays in busy periods and the A fifty two , there 's roadworks on the northbound carriageway at Clifton Bridge , there are diversions there for A fifty two traffic heading for Drive as well , sort of weave your way in and out of all the cones that are up there , the the cone monster 's been in the night .
13 It is doubtful if the material is there for a first-class combination . ’
14 ‘ They were there for a good couple of hours and when I left at around 2.00pm they were still interviewing players in the spare dressing rooms . ’
15 She must have sat alone there for a good quarter of an hour , singing to herself , before Henry and Lettice came crashing back through the woods , squealing that they had seen Humphrey and Janet and must take to the skiff at once .
16 There were a lot of people there who felt seriously about what they were fighting for but people went there for a good fight really , they had n't been able to show any aggression for the last two years .
17 ‘ I was making saggars there for a good number of years after the move to Barlaston , where they were used in firing , ’ re recalled .
18 She was in there for a good five minutes crashing around and swearing occasionally .
19 ‘ Well , I suppose you could go there for a new typewriter , though as I say , they 're mainly interested in bulk orders .
20 Erm but they seemed to be there for a specific purpose , but the normal day to day
21 If England were to decline to tour India on the grounds of safety , other countries might not be so willing to visit there for a one-day jamboree .
22 I sit there for a second thinking , No , it ca n't be …
23 It 's been kept on there for a second week with good houses and rave reviews from Time Out , What 's On and Spare Rib .
24 They were in there for a long time .
25 She lies there for a long time , not saying nothing .
26 One night , later in their affair , O woke up in the middle of one of his long and noisy dreams and lay there for a long time looking at Boy 's face as he slept .
27 He felt that the forces that had brought him to this narrow corner of a Neapolitan street — the wish , on the one hand , to track down Elsie and now the fear , on the other , that this search would lead him to harm — these forces might hold him there , his foot on the edge of the pavement overhanging the choked and filthy gutter , in a kind of uneasy equilibrium and he might stay there for a long , long time .
28 Many people claim that Frederick was imprisoned by the Turks , and that after his release he returned to Kaiserslautern and lived there for a long time .
29 I lay there for a long time unhappy and hardly noticing the daily noises of the block assembling round me .
30 The first was occupied by Miss Trimby , the last of a family that had lived there for a long time whilst her neighbours were Mr. & Mrs. Collins with their middle-aged bachelor son .
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