Example sentences of "line up for [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 An Italian , Gionesca , was absent from parade one morning as we lined up for inspection by the Sergeant-Major ; Corporal Herve , a scarred Frenchman who had taken over from Vigno as duty NCO , went upstairs to find him .
2 These are , for example , the nameless and faceless workers who lined up for work in response to Henry Ford 's visionary offer of a $5-per-day paycheck .
3 This is the first of Finnish director Aki Kaurismaki 's films to open here , but not the last : two more are lining up for release in the next six months .
4 Here are the Angerholme Pots , all lined up for inspection over a straight half-mile .
5 What fun to have them all lined up for inspection
6 His job is lined up for TV commentator Tony Lewis , another ex-England skipper .
7 Actor lined up for part of Maxwell
8 The grand style of landscaped gardens with carefully planned borders and regimented bedding plants ‘ like soldiers all lined up for attention ’ is not for her .
9 Big boost lined up for tower appeal
10 It was all a great privatisation success , he explained , pointing to fleets of cars and tractors lined up for export .
11 Shiny new BMWs were lined up for sale on the forecourt of what I took to be a condemned block of woefully austere flats , with a dilapidated factory next door .
12 A wagonway was constructed to carry coal from local pits to the wooden staithes — the wharves where ships lined up for loading — and brick houses were built for miners and dockers in the town that was exporting four million tons of coal a year by the end of the nineteenth century .
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