Example sentences of "[verb] there for [adj] [noun sg] " 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 | Edward continued to stand there for another minute or two . |
| 3 | And er , we stopped there for some time and nothing happened and me dad says Gil ! |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | I served there for thirteen year , became a chargehand eventually and eventually the f the firm folded up . |
| 6 | Well they perm your hair you know there for six pound . |
| 7 | Similarly , extensive pastures can be at some distance , since animals can be walked there and kept there for some time by herdsmen . |
| 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 | Well , we come off duty , we go on duty tonight at half past ten , and we come off at half past ten on Friday night , and we actually leave Didcot fire station at half five Saturday morning to get there for first light so we can make most use of the light , daylight hours . |
| 10 | This was unsuccessful , but fighting continued there for some time . |
| 11 | She had lived there for some time although it is not known where she lived before coming to Darlington . |
| 12 | There were signs that Sir Charles had stood there for some time . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Near the Salt Tower he found the gravel-strewn slush had been disturbed , indicating someone had stood there for some time . |
| 15 | Prentice opened it and wedged it open with a rusted chunk of iron left there for that purpose . |
| 16 | The ninth bomber came out of a lightening sky at six o'clock exactly , and though she sat there for another hour , it was the last . |
| 17 | It would be booked out and in by National Office , and would be returned there for safe storage on each occasion after use . |
| 18 | I stayed there for some time and looked at the castle , and then I walked on through the forest for about an hour . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | He remained there for some time . |
| 22 | Jack stood there for some time , staring at the repairs . |
| 23 | Tuan Ti Fo stood there for some time , staring at the door , the wicker basket resting lightly in his hand . |