Example sentences of "in [noun sg] for [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ What he 's saying is that they play away quite happily , not realizing what 's in store for them in the rest of their lives . |
| 2 | Tutilo would be warned of what was in store for him by the end of Vespers , if not before . |
| 3 | Has the position of the director changed in theatre for you over the years ? |
| 4 | The nursing home to which her husband has her committed after her eccentricity has become dangerous , and from which she and the other residents are eventually ejected to be cared for by an amorphous ‘ community ’ , might have been lying in wait for her from the day she was born . |
| 5 | Whatever Beryl believes or pretends to believe about her brother being mugged , he was in fact deliberately murdered by someone lying in wait for him on the scaffolding . |
| 6 | The plantation director was standing on an upturned crate that had been placed in position for him beneath the light , and despite the early hour he was already wearing his customary pitch helmet , the sleeves of his bush shirt were rolled high on his brown muscular arms and he was bare-legged in shorts , heavy jungle boots and short thick socks . |