Example sentences of "in [pron] [noun pl] for an " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Something fierce blazed in his eyes for an instant . |
| 5 | He stared at her , sudden heat in his eyes for an instant before the shuttering lashes came down to hide it . |