Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] for [art] [noun sg] in " in BNC.

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1 UB may be pencilled in for a show in the King 's Hall on January
2 Chris , tall , lithe and manly , strips off and goes in for a swim in his panda-briefs .
3 We are able to stand down for a while in the evening to get some sleep , write letters , play darts or watch TV .
4 I 'll have booked in for a course in Bristol starting in September — an art course , no one cares what art students look like — or drama maybe .
5 PLACE your bets with Bugsy — and you could be jetting off for a week in Las Vegas the gambling capital of the world .
6 After Arnold died , Nancy , feeling more strongly than ever what she had always known , that he was the only man she had loved , came to live permanently in the house where he had always seemed happiest , a piece of property he had picked up for a song in the sixties from Barone Dulcibene 's father-in-law , old Count Umberto Baderini .
7 When I wandered out for a surf-check in the morning , Michael was sitting on the bench .
8 He was let out for a walk in the grounds of the medium-security Runwell hospital , near Wickford , Essex .
9 When this is suggested , the invitation should always be along the lines of : ‘ I 'd love you to come out for a run in the car with me some time .
10 The immunity of Swiss companies to unfriendly or foreign takeovers came in for a pounding in 1988 after Nestlé took over Rowntree , a British confectioner , causing noisy British complaints about the lack of reciprocal opportunities .
11 Dressing up for a walk in the forest to find eggs
12 Motoring costs went down by 1.3 per cent , thanks to a further fall in the average cost of second-hand cars and an average drop of 7p a gallon in petrol prices which , together , more than made up for a rise in car insurance premiums .
13 At Myitkyina we camped out for the night in a mission schoolroom and early next morning managed to get a lift out to the airstrip two miles away .
14 Based around the museum site was No. 7027 ‘ Thornbury Castle ’ awaiting restoration , plus modern preserved diesel/electric motive power in the shape of No. 40118 and No. 50043 =Eagle ’ , the latter externally turned out for the extravaganza in Network South East colours .
15 We actually got the rigging up and sailed around for a while in twos — I was with my brother and I thought we managed quite well .
16 he 's applied to the Metropolitan police , he 's going down for an interview in June
17 Lining up for a photocall in front of the latest Leyland Daf trucks , just before the announcement of the rosy future the newly formed companies have predicted for themselves .
18 Barbel 's the only woman among thirty competitors lining up for the start in Geneva this weekend .
19 Like the Eighties terrace tearaways in Britain who showed up for the match in Barbour jackets and deerstalkers , these B- boys were appropriating the ruling class style and parading it with a sardonic grin .
20 Got up for a wee in the night .
21 Mr Venables of Lilac Grove , Whitby , Ellesmere Port , collapsed at a friend 's flat in Rock Ferry after going out for a drink in May .
22 A CONVICTED killer allowed out for a stroll in the grounds of a mental hospital just kept walking — and was still missing yesterday , 24 hours later .
23 Watch out for a change in publication dates for Courtauld News .
24 Watch out for a display in Chambers Street on Leith Race Prizes .
25 You might think you 're safe nipping out for a hill-walk in a Parka with nylon fur round the hood , and a pair of trawlerman 's oilskin trousers you bought at a life-boat fund-raising stall , but that 's the day you 'll bump into Sean Connery and Christopher Lambert with a film crew making Highlander 3 .
26 Look out for a circular in the 146 Series which will be issued shortly .
27 Michael Howard , the employment secretary , was left to make the best of this glum news by telling the TECs ' directors — 1,200 of them , by December 1990 — that they could make up for a shortfall in cash from the Treasury by raising money from the private sector .
28 The government has a list of long-promised infrastructure projects that could make up for the fall in private investment , though a bitter dispute in progress between the government and foreign banks that have lent 20 billion baht ( $187m ) for an elevated motorway in Bangkok may make finance for future projects harder to come by .
29 Some of the finest acrobats in the world are limbering up for a show in the Big Top in Cheltenham .
30 When the rest of the crowd turned out at closing time and headed for the Floral Gardens with their carry-outs , Tich bedded down for the night in the public lavatory on the other side of the railway bridge .
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