Example sentences of "[verb] there for [det] [noun] " 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 ‘ We talked of the extraordinary fact of Lady Grange 's being sent to St Kilda , and confined there for several years , without any means of relief . ’
3 Edward continued to stand there for another minute or two .
4 My father had proceeded to stand there for some moments , saying nothing , merely holding open the door .
5 And er , we stopped there for some time and nothing happened and me dad says Gil !
6 Christopher had obviously been going there for some years .
7 The story was an apparently true one concerning a certain butler who had travelled with his employer to India and served there for many years maintaining amongst the native staff the same high standards he had commanded in England .
8 He served there for many years , ultimately becoming chairman .
9 The needle crept steadily up to Mach .99 and hung there for several seconds .
10 Similarly , extensive pastures can be at some distance , since animals can be walked there and kept there for some time by herdsmen .
11 It might also cause the price of oil to soar above $50 a barrel and stay there for some months .
12 He lay there for several hours , sleeping fitfully , having occasional nightmares , trying to galvanise himself into getting up , and failing because of the absolute exhaustion that appeared to have gripped his limbs .
13 There are sites where it is not only possible to visit and see the reconstructions , but also to take part in activities simulating the way people lived on that site in the past , or even to live there for several days to get some sort of impression of the way of life .
14 ( Hence , notably in ‘ Gerontion ’ , Eliot 's ability to approximate and even conform to Jacobean blank verse , yet to depart from it smoothly when he pleased. ) Pound 's verse on the contrary was , at least after Homage to Sextus Propertius , free , not ‘ freed ’ : the rhythms that he sought and attained either had never appeared before in the language , or else had not appeared there for many centuries .
15 The firm traded there for many years and a number of well-known craftsmen served their apprenticeships at the works .
16 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 .
17 I lay there for many hours , but at last I fell asleep , and in my small , helpless boat , dreamed of home and the Admiral Benbow .
18 On the quay opposite the Cafe de la Rotonde you 'll see poor Annamese boys parading there for such men , with rice powder on their faces .
19 Shortly afterwards we moved to , and we lived there for many years .
20 The money deposited in England , Switzerland and other parts of Europe would remain there for many years until Samuel was free again to travel through a liberated continent .
21 For him the Dutch Texel is the original Texel ; it comes from the island of Texel and has been bred there for many generations .
22 Not until she had been sitting there for several minutes did Isabel realise that no sound at all had come from her torn and bleeding lips .
23 At the same time Miss Butterworth was employing women at the Flax Home Industry House at Grasmere and work continued there for many years .
24 This was unsuccessful , but fighting continued there for some time .
25 It was a remarkable education for all of us , including me , who has lived there for many years .
26 Most of the families in Rimswell , especially those concerned in agriculture , have lived there for some generations .
27 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 .
28 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 .
29 She had lived there for some time although it is not known where she lived before coming to Darlington .
30 In any case , Charles Henstock cared little for creature comforts , and had lived there for several years , alone , in appalling conditions of cold and discomfort , until his marriage to Dimity Dean , a few years before , had brought companionship and a slight mitigation of the hardship of his surroundings .
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