Example sentences of "[verb] there for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His knees ached as he knelt there for hours . |
| 2 | You 've located there for year 's … ’ |
| 3 | This sign announced that The Victorian Fitted Kitchen Company would soon be opening there for business . |
| 4 | They 'd sat there for hours , until nine o'clock at least , until the small garden became shadowy in the dusk . |
| 5 | And when she 's been confined there for days you sometimes have n't bothered with a towel . |
| 6 | David Icke lives there for God 's sake … literally . |
| 7 | The rest of the village was on stilts , a Southend pier of teak , and we stopped there for petrol and beer . |
| 8 | Booking there for Whitlow . |
| 9 | He played there for Scotland in a youth international against England . |
| 10 | Go in there turn left , its with the sheep right opposite the barn , played there for years , two trophy 's |
| 11 | Wait there for Saxe-Weimar . |
| 12 | You just wait there for Leo , ’ he said kindly . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | and then I used to stop at Jessie 's , you see , when I come home with the cart and leave the loaf of , loaf of bread then I used to go back , well , after tea and stop there for weekend , yeah . |
| 15 | From your point of view , the ex-Soviet non-Union is now the world leader in creative accounting , and you could work there for London 's own Euro-institution , the Bank for Reconstruction and Development — but I think you would get more value from Hong Kong . |
| 16 | As the porter said , the corpses might have been lying there for days , even weeks . |
| 17 | ‘ They 've been waiting there for ages , ’ said Gurder . |
| 18 | She 's She 's sitting in there waiting there for years |
| 19 | And I 've I 've known I 've heard of the Glen Islan m men would walk out the hill to the market of Braemar , the Castletown market they used to say , likely going there for sheep or something , I do n't know that was beyond my stories . |
| 20 | Vast quantities of manuscripts were transported there for safe-keeping and copying . |
| 21 | Will Pearson-Jones is taxation manager at N.K. Jackson & Co in Manchester and can be contacted there for advice . |
| 22 | Well we had er , th there always used to be one man aboard the dumb hopper , wh they used to leave there for Monday morning and they used to p him , a man with him . |
| 23 | Travis showed every sign of staying there for hours . |
| 24 | During the day he was at the power station and at weekends , reversing the normal peregrination , he was at his London flat , frequently staying there for Part of the week if he had a meeting in town . |
| 25 | I end up staying there for ages , thinking about Marie and that . |
| 26 | By this time the families staying there for summer quarters were out for a forenoon walk : mothers , nurses , playful youngsters — some with towels for the bathing , others with picnic baskets , making for the cliffs or the shore . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Ooh she worked there for years me mother did . |
| 29 | How about coming there for dinner with me to-morrow ? ’ |
| 30 | They milled there for seconds , a dark mass glinting like beetles in the light of the moon — and then there were thin , spiked shapes being raised against the walls . |