Example sentences of "in [pron] for a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were in 'er for a dinner Which was excellent , in Pinner , And another one , a cracker , In Majacca — that 's in Spain |
| 2 | People have been counted as spending all of the last year of their lives in residential homes if they had lived in one for a year or more . |
| 3 | Taking all types of respondents together their ratings were similar for people who had not been in a residential home at all and those who had been in one for a year or more , while those who had only spent part of the last year of their lives in a residential home were generally felt to have had a worse quality of life : for 39 per cent of them it was rated as poor compared with 27 per cent of the other two groups . |
| 4 | I think they are a waste of money because the baby 's only in one for a couple of months . |
| 5 | ‘ The thought of being in one for a week and unconscious for half a day would n't have appealed to me very much . |
| 6 | ( Only now do I realize how strong the desire in her for a daughter must have been to cause her to dress her youngest son as a little girl almost until the day he went to school , his fair hair nearly reaching his waist ; yet he had grown up a man . ) |
| 7 | A number of significant figures were caught up in it for a while — the sculptor F. E. McWilliam , Tristram Hillier , John Tunnard . |
| 8 | I walk around in it for a while anyway , watching myself approach in the mirror and admiring the way the skirt moves as I walk . |
| 9 | Cos an oil engine was in it for a while and then they put a new diesel engine in I think it would be nineteen thirty nine or something . |
| 10 | In fact he and then Craigie from Rowsay was in it for a while . |
| 11 | I always seem to get them at dawn , it 's something to do with the stuffiness of this room after I 've been locked in it for a night . |
| 12 | And he took me out in it for a test drive . |
| 13 | I was only in it for a lark . ’ |
| 14 | I had an old camping van that I lived in during tournaments , and he chose to go with me in it for a meal in Chinatown in Liverpool . |
| 15 | When he arrived he put his cold , white hand in hers for a moment and said , ‘ Hello , Tessa , ’ as if he had always been aware of her as part of the background furnishings . |