Example sentences of "[verb] here for [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hardly a fish has been caught here for three weeks but the birds had had roach and dace up to 8 oz . |
| 2 | If he was going anywhere I thought he would have come here for Premier League football . |
| 3 | They 've been hunting here for 150 years . |
| 4 | I see you 've got no carpets down anywhere the door 's not painted and he said you 've been living here for two years ! |
| 5 | They have been living here for seven years but now they are being inundated by refuse . |
| 6 | ‘ I came here for some answers . |
| 7 | ‘ I 've been waiting here for two hours , Fagin , ’ said the stranger . |
| 8 | I 've been waiting here for ten minutes = I 'm waiting here ten minutes |
| 9 | I need stability which I do n't think we have had here for three seasons . |
| 10 | But do not look here for specific advice . |
| 11 | But Cadle cares for English basketball enough to have stayed here for 10 years — most of the time on a budget even Norman Lamont could manage . |
| 12 | ‘ I have been coming here for nine years and have a feel for the heart of the city and this song says it all . ’ |
| 13 | I 've been coming here for some time and only now am I relaxed there . |
| 14 | I I 've been coming here for forty years so far and and provocative statement I think in your programme this Autumn is the best that you 've had for years it 's a very good combination of classical and and modern plays and I really congratulate you on this programme and I would like to see that standard maintained . |
| 15 | Grasmere was paradise to him and he settled here for several years at Dove cottage ( which is open to the public ) . |
| 16 | There has been no tipping here for many years , and already the bank seems to be slowly settling back into the earth from which it came . |
| 17 | The Marshalls , a well-known family engaged in flax spinning lived here for many years and many interesting people , including Wordsworth and Adam Sedgwick , were visitors . |
| 18 | The Brownes and their descendants lived here for many years and played a prominent part in the life of the village . |
| 19 | That I lived here for many years as a child , that — " |
| 20 | Alford Grammar school also had a hand in the education of Captain John Smith before he went to Louth and Thomas Paine , famous for abolishing slavery in Pennsylvania and for his written works , in particular ‘ The Rights of Man ’ , lived here for several years when he worked at the Excise Office . |
| 21 | What kind of community has it been , having lived here having had so many years in which you 've actually had I mean ei either lived here for forty years plus erm from many other years you 've actually been working here in addi in addition . |
| 22 | ‘ I lived here for three years , if you want to be precise . ’ |
| 23 | Beneath the clock was an enormous arrow , on which was printed : Change Here For Eastern Trains . |
| 24 | ‘ Three weeks at least , and he must stay here for that time . |
| 25 | ‘ The chances are a thousand to one that you might stay here for ten seasons and never see a boatman in a hurry , ’ quoted Sir Thomas loudly to his brood , waving a lordly hand towards William and Joe who were enjoying a quiet chew of tobacco at the end of the pier . |
| 26 | You would argue with me who have taught here for twenty years you , you , Gwendoline turned and fled . |
| 27 | Some are management development students , they are between twenty-eight and thirty-six years old and they stay here for fifteen weeks . |
| 28 | I do n't like sitting here for two hours . |
| 29 | They ca n't get here for five hours . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ We do n't come here for economic reasons — we come here to seek life . ’ |