Example sentences of "in [pron] [noun pl] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ My dear girl , it was no hardship to hold you in my arms for a while , I assure you ! ’ |
| 2 | I attended the medical centre for my test and stood in my underpants for an hour in a shiny-clean waiting room with yellow walls and a kitten sitting in the corner . |
| 3 | I began to realize how inadequate my picture of Laura was ; that I had made no room in my thoughts for an independent life of her own , let alone one as earthed and pragmatic as the potter 's craft . |
| 4 | I hung up and dug around in my pockets for a smoke . |
| 5 | In my notes for the Raphael Trio 's Unicorn-Kanchana recording of the Beethoven Septet in the composer 's own transcription for piano trio , I drew attention to a small discrepancy between the trio version and the original . |
| 6 | I sat with my head in my hands for a while , then I went over to my desk and took out a small framed photograph of Anne and myself which I always hid before she arrived . |
| 7 | I picked up the file and stood with it in my hands for a few minutes before deciding whether to examine its contents . |
| 8 | I can keep Rainbow in my sights for a little while longer . |
| 9 | Several alumni have asked how they can make provision in their wills for a bequest which will help future students at Birmingham . |
| 10 | This work was financed by the laity — both patrons of livings and parishioners , large numbers of whom made contributions during their lifetimes and left bequests in their wills for the refurbishing of their local churches . |
| 11 | A special vote of the Mexico City-based WBC agreed that Lewis should receive 75 per cent of the £9 million-plus windfall instead of 80 per cent ( £6,777,622 ) as laid down in their rules for a champion defending his title in the challenger 's country . |
| 12 | Several prominent political and religious leaders spoke at the service and were united in their calls for the government to take firm and speedy action against those responsible for the deaths . |
| 13 | Each of the major political parties included detailed commitments in their manifestos for the general election held in Britain on 9 April . |
| 14 | South London Oi boys trade in their boots for a much more refined and punchy new direction which lies somewhere between second album Clash and late '70s punksters the Angelic Upstarts . |
| 15 | South London Oi boys trade in their boots for a much more refined and punchy new direction which lies somewhere between second album Clash and late '70s punksters the Angelic Upstarts . |
| 16 | He did n't seem to notice , and continued , his voice rising even more : ‘ I believe when people come here on vacation they come to escape the perpetual grey in their lives for a short space of time . |
| 17 | The surprise , the shout , the authority in his command kept them pinned in their chairs for a vital five seconds . |
| 18 | It is now not uncommon for consultancies to include in their proposals for a campaign how they intend to measure its success . |
| 19 | In their proposals for the conventional industries , officials at the commission have earmarked a list of technologies . |
| 20 | Perfectionism : Family members try desperately to get everything exactly right in their plans for the primary sufferer but still blame themselves when the smallest things go wrong . |
| 21 | By 0930 they were all in their coaches for the long journey back to Brighton , for that evening they all became civilians again and had to be ready for their ordinary jobs on Monday . |
| 22 | Disapproval turned to horror when both boys set off in their Mirages for the Falklands . |
| 23 | At the same time we can relish the days more and more , and search in their interstices for the hidden treasures and thus our lives may become the supreme adventure and treasure hunt of the transcendent . |
| 24 | The audience were in their seats for the first of the two evening performances . |
| 25 | But the truce does not seem to have aroused general opposition in England ; perhaps more serious in their implications for the regime were the disorders at Pontefract in the summer of 1323 , when a mob killed two officials guarding Lancaster 's tomb to prevent offerings being made there . |
| 26 | They diverge in their justifications for the subjection of individuals to the exercise of state power during the enforcement of contractual obligations . |
| 27 | Around 400 people who have been treated for melanoma ( skin cancer ) will be asked to keep a radon-measuring device in their homes for a year as part of a £13,000 Bristol University project . |
| 28 | The County Court Rules , Order 37 , are wide enough in their terms for the further application to have been made before the county court judge . |
| 29 | CHARITY worker Rod Jones has urged Darlington ‘ godparents ’ to hand in their gifts for the children of Romania before the next convoy departs . |
| 30 | He had the Intelligence and the Security and the Branch all burrowing in their computers for an Englishman called Colt who wiped people for the cause of the Republic of Iraq , and he had sweet nothing to do , unless he went eye to eye with the mysteries of the thermostat . |