Example sentences of "[vb past] there for [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And er , we stopped there for some time and nothing happened and me dad says Gil ! |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | He served there for many years , ultimately becoming chairman . |
| 4 | The needle crept steadily up to Mach .99 and hung there for several seconds . |
| 5 | Similarly , extensive pastures can be at some distance , since animals can be walked there and kept there for some time by herdsmen . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The firm traded there for many years and a number of well-known craftsmen served their apprenticeships at the works . |
| 8 | Shortly afterwards we moved to , and we lived there for many years . |
| 9 | At the same time Miss Butterworth was employing women at the Flax Home Industry House at Grasmere and work continued there for many years . |
| 10 | This was unsuccessful , but fighting continued there for some time . |
| 11 | Prentice opened it and wedged it open with a rusted chunk of iron left there for that purpose . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | I stayed there for some time and looked at the castle , and then I walked on through the forest for about an hour . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | It displaced The Smiths ' ‘ Strangeways Here We Come ’ in the independent charts and stayed there for several weeks . |
| 17 | In 1863 he died and the mills were leased to Reynolds and Allen , who remained there for some years . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | He remained there for some time . |
| 20 | Jack stood there for some time , staring at the repairs . |
| 21 | Tuan Ti Fo stood there for some time , staring at the door , the wicker basket resting lightly in his hand . |