Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] for a [noun] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the 1970s the police were often concerned with the need to keep apart two rival groups , each of which had gathered together for a demonstration in the same place and at the same time . |
| 2 | UB may be pencilled in for a show in the King 's Hall on January |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | He was let out for a walk in the grounds of the medium-security Runwell hospital , near Wickford , Essex . |
| 6 | The horse still searched desperately for a footing in the soft , moving earth of the cliff-side and Maggie felt that every bone in her body was jarred as the flying hoofs found what they sought . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Got up for a wee in the night . |
| 9 | Stuck together for a lifetime in that bed , drinking cups of coffee , looking at people who were not like themselves in that cautious keep-off way . |
| 10 | ‘ Well , ’ Yanto began hastily , ‘ I was told he got pinned down for a week in no-man 's land during the battle of the Somme in 1916 . |
| 11 | A few months as a registrar in Nottingham , then he would be well set up for a job in the place of his choice . |
| 12 | The impression of a house where the occupants had just walked out for a stroll in the garden was very strong . |
| 13 | The young couple were now secluded together for a week in a specially decorated apartment . |
| 14 | A Teesside inquest heard how Wayne had gone out for a spin in the W-reg white Ford Escort with four pals in November last year . |
| 15 | No German would kill his dad , of that he felt certain , though lately he had begun to feel guilty about his own war efforts since Grace had signed up for a spell in the hospital tents , a mere half-mile behind the front line . |
| 16 | But Thomas has been lined up for a return in Sunday 's FA Cup third round tie at Bolton Wanderers . |
| 17 | Unless you have married a man who is unusually attached to his mother ( which is another matter altogether ) , it will be unlikely to occur to your husband that he needs to do anything more to make his mother happy than to be a kind and dutiful son , who has given her sanctuary in his own home in her later years ; but if he is a man of feeling , it will not be difficult to persuade him of her need for his company : her need to be taken out for a run in the car with him alone sometimes , to be kissed when he kisses you when he gets home in the evening , and occasionally to be brought a bunch of flowers instead of you . |
| 18 | MARK JONES , the 16-stone Welsh forward in trouble after being sent off for a punch in Hull 's fiery clash with Warrington , is in more hot water . |
| 19 | I realized that this was the same place Brian and I had been held in for a week in May 1988 before going to the Pit . |