Example sentences of "[verb] there for some " in BNC.
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| 1 | She went humming upstairs to clean the bathroom , while Winnie turned over in her mind a plan which had been lurking there for some time . |
| 2 | My father had proceeded to stand there for some moments , saying nothing , merely holding open the door . |
| 3 | And er , we stopped there for some time and nothing happened and me dad says Gil ! |
| 4 | Christopher had obviously been going there for some years . |
| 5 | Similarly , extensive pastures can be at some distance , since animals can be walked there and kept there for some time by herdsmen . |
| 6 | We contented ourselves with a few small purchases , but will probably go there for some more serious shopping before the end of our stay in Peking , as it is obviously the best place in the country for buying touristy things . |
| 7 | It might also cause the price of oil to soar above $50 a barrel and stay there for some months . |
| 8 | We sit there for some time but I keep glancing up , and gradually become terrified that the man is somehow not dead or has become a zombie and is climbing back up the shaft towards us , to push the grating up and put his already rotting hands down and grab us both by the hair . |
| 9 | The muddle and rush were greater even than at Reading , and we were often kept there for some twenty minutes . |
| 10 | This was unsuccessful , but fighting continued there for some time . |
| 11 | In Kufra one policeman ( the senior customs officer ) was a stranger , though he had lived there for some decades ; in Tazarbu nearly all policemen were from one lineage ( Bilal ) , or had married into it ; the senior officer 's son was also in the force , a trainee under his father 's authority . |
| 12 | Most of the families in Rimswell , especially those concerned in agriculture , have lived there for some generations . |
| 13 | Mr Fallon said a family renting a house valued at £25,000 , and entitled to the maximum price discount of 40pc because they had lived there for some years , could have a mortgage of £10,000 . |
| 14 | She had lived there for some time although it is not known where she lived before coming to Darlington . |
| 15 | There were signs that Sir Charles had stood there for some time . |
| 16 | He could not say when , but the horse dung and the faint indentations in the dry earth showed riders had stood there for some time . |
| 17 | Near the Salt Tower he found the gravel-strewn slush had been disturbed , indicating someone had stood there for some time . |
| 18 | All one can say with any certainty is that the Pounds ( and probably the Yeatses also ) paid at least two visits to Sicily in these years , and that on at least one occasion — probably on more than one — they stayed there for some weeks , if not months . |
| 19 | I stayed there for some time and looked at the castle , and then I walked on through the forest for about an hour . |
| 20 | She stayed there for some time , the heavy depression that had been weighing her down ever since Marianne had appeared in her room soothed a little by the gentle singing of the river . |
| 21 | In 1863 he died and the mills were leased to Reynolds and Allen , who remained there for some years . |
| 22 | Flying north from the island they spotted the vessels at 1215 , but almost at once were attacked by patrolling fighters , three Fulmars of 808 Squadron and three Skuas of 800 , reporting one of each type on their tail , which remained there for some twenty minutes . |
| 23 | Alcuin was resident among the Northumbrians in 790 and remained there for some time in the hope of influencing Aethelred , whose accession he welcomed , though evidently to no avail for shortly after he declared that he was working against injustice and that Aethelred 's attitude was not as he had hoped . |
| 24 | He remained there for some time . |
| 25 | Jack stood there for some time , staring at the repairs . |
| 26 | Tuan Ti Fo stood there for some time , staring at the door , the wicker basket resting lightly in his hand . |