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

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1 An animal capable of symbolization can carry away from a situation an inner trace that stands in for the response it may make when it next encounters the situation .
2 Hard to feel sorry for the laird , who would have watched the sweating workers from his window , hands in pockets , listening for the doorbell in case the king changed his mind and dropped in for a scone .
3 She struggled and was nearly countered , but then negated Wu 's defence and slipped in for a one-armed shoulder throw .
4 Gregor Townsend later managed to pass to the referee — clad in near identical colours to the Scots — for the Samoans to plunder ball and scuttle in for the first of their three tries , though it might have been more had we not seen defensive heroics typified by a timely tackle on Leilane Une by Derek Turnbull .
5 The price of oil would probably rise to more than $50 a barrel and dig in for a stay of some months .
6 He stopped at the door and stared in for a minute .
7 Having been stung in a similar situation in their last league game when Gregor McKechnie called their bluff over a kickable penalty and scuttled in for a try , Tukalo tried to do likewise after Joe Munro had been caught offside in the Watsonian 22 , as Scott Hastings was called to arms to police Linton .
8 The detachable top ring needs to be set at such a pressure as to stay in for the cast but detach on the strike or more accurately the wind-down .
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