Example sentences of "[vb past] in the [noun sg] for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Prisoners-of-war , wandering free men , peasants and natives were mobilized from time to time into detachments of foreign servicemen ( Litva ) or cossacks , and there were service gentry from European Russia stationed in the region for periods of several years . |
| 2 | This is a great part of the pleasure Matthew Spender found ; discovering craftsmen , for example , one of whom remembered who had built a palazzo in Florence , another who hid in the cellar for fear of thunderstorms , yet another who built him beehives . |
| 3 | Lees ( 1962 ) drew attention to a noticeable gap which existed in the instrumentation for examination of transparent thin sections or surface replicas such as peels , particularly with sizes larger than a standard thin section . |
| 4 | Erm so what I have to is an executor appointed provided he lived in the country for instance because his address was abroad at the time . |
| 5 | well we always had entertained friends but we 'd never been in a position to put them up so that erm most of our friendly visits were from people who did n't live very far from us , it meant that families , nieces , nephews etcetera were difficult to accommodate because they had to sleep on a couch or a settee in the living room with all its diff difficulties , especially when it meant in the morning for breakfast you had to get them up and dressed before you could start thinking about breakfast , and I think that those sort of things are things that er people ought to take into consideration when thinking about new housing . |
| 6 | She felt in the bed for Alice 's hand and squeezed it , to make amends . |
| 7 | It is convenient to start at the end of that journey and work backwards from the provisions dealing with unlawful eviction which resulted in the order for damages being made in the court below . |
| 8 | More serious was the task performed by N185 in June 1929 , when it assisted in the search for HM Submarine H47 which sank off Plymouth . |
| 9 | Antigonus Monophthalmus had ninety thousand soldiers at Ipsus in 301 B.C. ; the Seleucid and the Ptolemaic army each consisted of about seventy thousand soldiers at Raphia in 217 B.C. The Roman superiority lay in the capacity for replacement — that is , in the capacity for surviving defeat in one or more battles , as the war against Pyrrhus and the second Punic War amply proved . |
| 10 | One quite serious limitation in the original selection of these authorities lay in the criterion for selection which seemed to rest in the main on those authorities whose drama advisers happened to be currently in favour with H.M.I . |
| 11 | The optimism lay in the potential for development in the hitherto largely neglected extra-metropolitan southern fringe of the District . |
| 12 | ‘ A Transatlantic expression meaning — ’ I paused and looked in the air for inspiration . ' |
| 13 | News , too , of changes in the Alumni Office — Tracey Francis left in the summer for pastures new and I arrived to take her place in September . |
| 14 | This development is particularly important in the study of those who wrote in the vernacular for laymen who were cut off from the richness of recollected prayer in the practice of the liturgy and in search of modes by which they could realise the substance of their faith . |
| 15 | ‘ In charge of ’ can be proved by the police officer or other witness who saw him near or sat in the vehicle for example . |
| 16 | I went along as Central Fire Controller ( CFC ) however , I sat in the nose for take-off , which was very exciting ! |