Example sentences of "there [pron] [verb] for [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 There I stayed for two days .
2 There I remained for five years , going on to Theology after History .
3 And a lot of people out there who work for these record companies are idiots who know nothing about music .
4 There she studied for several months at the Académie Carmen with James McNeill Whistler [ q.v. ] ,
5 Hall offered her a job , and there she stayed for two years working sixty to seventy hours a week and still commuting back to Blackheath , except on press night , which would go on all night , once a fortnight .
6 To this Leonard went , and there he stayed for several months , playing his part in the Pullman household under the terse agreement : ‘ If you stay , you 'll pull your weight , like the rest of us ’ ; ensconced in a lively family atmosphere for the first time in years .
7 In 1869 they sent him to Peru to supervise running two of their steam ploughs , and there he remained for thirteen years , soon finding scope for his natural business acumen .
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