Example sentences of "in [pron] for a " 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 | He felt alien , not necessarily a bad thing in itself for an observer . |
| 3 | who 's going to the money in who for a duck , who 's gon na the money in ? |
| 4 | ‘ The thought of being in one for a week and unconscious for half a day would n't have appealed to me very much . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | I think they are a waste of money because the baby 's only in one for a couple of months . |
| 8 | ( 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 . ) |
| 9 | It 's great , cos the water 's warm , and I fill up the sink and keep my hands in it for a long time . |
| 10 | I was only in it for a lark . ’ |
| 11 | A number of significant figures were caught up in it for a while — the sculptor F. E. McWilliam , Tristram Hillier , John Tunnard . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Christine let him stew in it for a few moments . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | And he took me out in it for a test drive . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | No in in your memory , of course , you 've been involved in it for a long time , have n't you ? |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | In fact he and then Craigie from Rowsay was in it for a while . |
| 23 | But that was only because I 'd lived in it for a long time and I got a discount so the house was really |
| 24 | in it for a , for a couple of years to get as much as they can and get a |
| 25 | He has n't been in it for a long time . |
| 26 | 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 . |