Example sentences of "[adv] for the [noun pl] in [pron] " in BNC.

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1 The fee will be £5 per month , charged only for the months in which the CheckOver has been used .
2 It was no fun , and the putrid bridie at the restaurant , thrown across the counter at me by a young waitress who clearly blamed me personally for the shortcomings in her life , was little consolation .
3 Anna Pavord 's proposal ( 27 September ) that the interior should be rebuilt as ‘ a series of simple , clean well-designed rooms ’ for the display of the contents saved from the fire ignores the fact that the furniture and paintings at Uppark were either designed or collected by the Fetherstonhaugh family over numerous generations especially for the rooms in which they lived .
4 Article 12 provides separately for the circumstances in which the execution of a letter of request may be refused , namely ,
5 Jack fell quickly into the routine of looking out for the absurdities in his father 's speech to put into a P'dayta-Pie for Warnie ; but he had no heart for it .
6 ‘ Why , here 's my mother home at last , ’ he said , and came smiling to meet her , putting forth the child by the hand to her , a little clumsily because he could not see well for the tears in his eyes .
7 He could have taken the isolation better if it was n't for the batteries in his radio dying on him without warning ; usually they faded over a couple of nights but this time it was just zonk , no signal .
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