Example sentences of "[vb past] there for [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Anyway to finish that story about stopping and starting , I stopped there for fifty years and me mother was still alive when er when I at ninety three and when I retired in nineteen seventy nine , nineteen eighty I told me mum that I was finishing and she looked at me I told you that job would n't last and I , I , I mean I 'd done fifty years all but a few months . |
| 2 | And er , we stopped there for some time and nothing happened and me dad says Gil ! |
| 3 | She studied there for three years with Frederick Brown and Henry Tonks [ qq.v. ] , winning a certificate for figure drawing ( 1896–7 ) and the Melvill Nettleship prize for figure composition ( 1897–8 ) . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | He served there for many years , ultimately becoming chairman . |
| 6 | I served there for thirteen year , became a chargehand eventually and eventually the f the firm folded up . |
| 7 | The needle crept steadily up to Mach .99 and hung there for several seconds . |
| 8 | I used to work with him in my mother 's shop — he worked there for twenty-five years , until he died a few years ago . |
| 9 | Should the project go ahead , spent fuel would be stored in a series of air-cooled concrete vaults and kept there for fifty years , after which the company would decide whether it was to be reprocessed or buried . |
| 10 | Similarly , extensive pastures can be at some distance , since animals can be walked there and kept there for some time by herdsmen . |
| 11 | The mess lay there for two days . |
| 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 | He was crazy about New York and went there for long weekends . |
| 14 | Whilst there I was introduced to the nearby Cheshire Home and went there for five weeks . |
| 15 | The firm traded there for many years and a number of well-known craftsmen served their apprenticeships at the works . |
| 16 | Cos he , he , well he said she only lived there for two months . |
| 17 | I lived there for eighteen months with someone I thought I loved , indeed who I did , do , no , did love . ’ |
| 18 | Shortly afterwards we moved to , and we lived there for many years . |
| 19 | This has probably something to do with the fact that I was born in Belfast and lived there for 18 years . |
| 20 | They went to Tanzania for 17 years following Orton 's sacking as a cabinet minister after a dispute with the President , and lived there for 17 years . |
| 21 | Unfortunately General Gordon was killed before its completion but his two sisters lived there for forty years . |
| 22 | At the same time Miss Butterworth was employing women at the Flax Home Industry House at Grasmere and work continued there for many years . |
| 23 | This was unsuccessful , but fighting continued there for some time . |
| 24 | Prentice opened it and wedged it open with a rusted chunk of iron left there for that purpose . |
| 25 | To fix the burns you have skin stripped off your thigh , then put over all your wounds as a natural plaster and left there for ten days . |
| 26 | She was too shaken with sobs to risk driving so she sat there for two hours weeping her heart out while neighbours and passers-by studiously ignored her obvious distress . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | When the US army discovered that Silver had been engaged in research work ( on Whitman ) he was put to personally testing the durability of uniforms , in sub-zero and boiling temperatures , artificial rain storms in laboratories and real tropical conditions in Florida : he soon became an assistant director of this project and stayed there for two years . |
| 29 | He stayed there for two years until his urge to move on took him to Hong Kong , and then , in 1894 , on a journey on foot and by horse from Shanghai to Rangoon . |
| 30 | In the event he stayed there for six years , immersing himself in the special atmosphere of rural Ireland which he found greatly sympathetic . |