Example sentences of "in [pron] for [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It had been with shame and some irritation that he had recognized in himself for the first time the nagging of jealousy . |
| 2 | First , that there are cases in which for no apparent reason legacy and trust seem to be used imprecisely . |
| 3 | As he later recorded in his ‘ Lines on an Autumnal Evening ’ , these were the settings in which for the first time ‘ young Poesy/Stared wildly-eager in her noontide dream ’ . |
| 4 | She had turned on him again that remarkable glance in which for the first time he had detected to his discomfiture a brief flash of intelligence and of calculation . |
| 5 | Had Andrewes remained in Cambridge , his reputation would probably have been unblemished but he would have lacked the stimulus to write the magnificent sermons which he preached at Court ; and he would not willingly have engaged in the controversial writing in which for the first time he set out the Anglican Church 's position in terms which European scholars could respect ; above all his Preces , even had they been written , would not have contained the breadth of experience , and the depth of feeling , based on that experience , which made them treasures of the Church . |
| 6 | But Protestant orthodoxy in the generations after the Reformation had inclined to treat the Bible in a rather hardened and absolute fashion , and to search in it for a wider range of information than the Reformers were looking for . |
| 7 | It 's great , cos the water 's warm , and I fill up the sink and keep my hands in it for a long time . |
| 8 | No in in your memory , of course , you 've been involved in it for a long time , have n't you ? |
| 9 | But that was only because I 'd lived in it for a long time and I got a discount so the house was really |
| 10 | He has n't been in it for a long time . |
| 11 | Christine let him stew in it for a few moments . |
| 12 | Once it has been lifted from the frames it will be offered to the NRM who have expressed interest in it for a projected display . |
| 13 | She had a cloud of short hair curving in clinging waves about her head , the colour of barley silk , and under the feathery fringe her forehead bulged childishly , with room in it for a notable brain , the one thing about her that was not suavely curved and ivory-smooth . |
| 14 | Before the new names can go in the pot , the ones that have remained in it for the two years have to come out so , after a brief introduction by the chairman of the trustees and the vicar , the three keyholders leave the room to go next door to the church where the chest is kept . |
| 15 | The web of diplomatic contacts which had developed in western and central Europe over the last 200 or more years was now being extended further east by the full incorporation in it for the first time of the great new emerging state of Russia : henceforth events in eastern Europe were to be far more significant in the calculations of statesmen in the west than ever in the past . |
| 16 | A company is treated as an associated undertaking when the group holds a substantial interest in it for the long term , and exercises a significant influence over its operating and financial policy decisions . |
| 17 | Having obtained B , we now select a pivotal element in it for the next step ; the selection is arbitrary except that the element must be nonzero and must not be in the second row , which contains the unit . |
| 18 | It would be a mistake to assume that all participants in the revolt were involved in it for the same reasons . |