Example sentences of "[vb pp] there for " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were left on the car park , so people knew they were parked there for the night . |
| 2 | You 've located there for year 's … ’ |
| 3 | Yanto felt he could have sat there for ever . |
| 4 | I must have sat there for about half an hour or more . |
| 5 | Despite the phone ringing insistently in the background , I felt as if I could have sat there for ever . |
| 6 | You can get back from York in quarter of an hour and then you can be sat there for |
| 7 | They 'd sat there for hours , until nine o'clock at least , until the small garden became shadowy in the dusk . |
| 8 | Martin Martin notes that on a small rocky island to the south of Skye there is ‘ a great quantity of scurvey-grass , of an extraordinary size , and very thick ; the natives eat it frequently , as well boiled as raw : two of them told me that they happened to be confined there for the space of thirty hours , by a contrary wind ; and being without victuals , fell to eating this scurvey-grass , and finding it of a sweet taste , far different from the land scurvey-grass , they ate a large basketful of it , which did abundantly satisfy their appetites until their return home ’ . |
| 9 | ‘ We talked of the extraordinary fact of Lady Grange 's being sent to St Kilda , and confined there for several years , without any means of relief . ’ |
| 10 | And when she 's been confined there for days you sometimes have n't bothered with a towel . |
| 11 | ‘ That gives us the initial impression that the explosion was of an accidental nature rather than a purposeful one , although there can be no doubt that the explosives were stockpiled there for killing people , ’ the officer said . |
| 12 | Yes he had booked there for a week , I think it was for a business meeting with Mr Sandy , that 's all I know . |
| 13 | I think it 's the first birdie I 've made there for about nine years , ’ he said . |
| 14 | Nylon yarn was made there for a time along with Cellophane packaging film , carpets and circular knitted fabrics . |
| 15 | The task force from Normandy was first to seize the Isle of Wight , then land at Gosport , from which Portsmouth and its dockyard would be bombarded and neutralised , while , as a further distraction , a minor attack would be made on Bristol , with others on Liverpool and Cork , to destroy supplies collected there for transport to America . |
| 16 | the desolate home of Miss Havisham for which CD 's original was the picturesque old Elizabethan mansion in Rochester known as Restoration House in honour of the Restoration of Charles II in 1660 , the king having lodged there for one night en route for London . |
| 17 | Working-class community life is as strongly established in Glasgow as anywhere , and football violence has occurred there for over a century . |
| 18 | I checked behind the wall ‘ phone to see if any mail had been stuffed there for me but , as usual , there was nothing . |
| 19 | Nanny and baby could both be accommodated there for a while . |
| 20 | I mean , there 's no fun in sitting there saying ‘ we 're not going to be able to do Bloxham Primary School to replace the temporary buildings they 've had there for nineteen years ’ ; that gives nobody any joy , but in terms of priorities , it was one that was felt er did not have that prior , the same priority as some of the others . |
| 21 | Vast quantities of manuscripts were transported there for safe-keeping and copying . |
| 22 | It will be based there for an experimental period of a year to evaluate suitability of the bay behind the power station as a permanent mooring for the lifeboat . |
| 23 | Will Pearson-Jones is taxation manager at N.K. Jackson & Co in Manchester and can be contacted there for advice . |
| 24 | She 'd been summoned there for refusing to pay a poll tax surcharge of £14.52 . |
| 25 | He came out of the clinic on 19 March having stayed there for a week longer than he had anticipated , and was once again forced to rest . |
| 26 | The stuff had just stayed there for years , and Mum had n't been interested , but then people started talking about Dad , and writing to her , and sending pieces they 'd written on him . |
| 27 | Young Philip was employed there for a time before going abroad , taking over during his father 's trips into the country where some landowners Sought his practical advice , particularly with regard to establishing plantations of hitherto unknown trees from abroad . |
| 28 | lays duties with respect to health and safety on those who are in control of any non-domestic premises , where people who are not their employees work , or where such people use plant or substances provided there for their use . |
| 29 | It 's getting a bit of a nuisance to him stuck there for twenty seven years . |
| 30 | so er but it 's stuck there for er weeks on end , you know |