Example sentences of "for the [noun] in [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His style is associated with clothes and his trade is fashion photographer — but the armature for the clothes in his fashion pictures , is a " look " he invented . |
| 2 | . So the erm Woman 's Own rubber rhyme erm begins Aahs for the runs and I modestly blush , aahs for the runs in your girdle . |
| 3 | Early in their walk she had handed him the usual tenpenny piece , and now she heard a faint tinkle and watched while he stuck his candle in the socket , and reached for the matches in their brass holder . |
| 4 | With a dozen spills to hand , I reached for the matches in my pouch . |
| 5 | Just the thing for thinking up excuses for sick days and an ideal gift for the hypochondriac in your life . |
| 6 | Not only was it light , warm and washable , it also made grown men , previously never out of a brown jumper and khaki woollen breeches , dress for the hills in something pink and fluffy . |
| 7 | for the animal in its mud burrow , valuable time will be lost if it can not prepare itself for foraging until after the tide has left the shore . |
| 8 | He and Antonio whip Claudio 's emotions up in verse with their threatened challenge , a level of seriousness from which Claudio gratefully subsides into prose for the scene in which he and Don Pedro mock Benedick ‘ the married man ’ , gulled by them into loving Beatrice . |
| 9 | I get a few letters of this sort from people who think the advert for the B.A.E.C. in your classified section , which says it ‘ exists to help electronics enthusiasts ’ , is a general invitation to all and sundry to send their problems to me . |
| 10 | They cared little for the landscape in which they worked . |
| 11 | Where 's the erm the tie-backs for the curtains in your bedroom ? |
| 12 | The tie-backs for the curtains in your bedroom ? |
| 13 | It is also very important economically , not just for the creativity in itself . ’ |
| 14 | Raskolnikov turns to Sonya ; ‘ it was to her , Sonya , that he first went with his confession ; when he felt the need of a human being , he sought the human being in her ’ — which does indeed isolate for a moment , and emphasize , the mystic business of his alienation from the human family ; and for this moment the dross ( as it were ) of Sonya and of Raskolnikov is withheld ; the god in his humanity is looking for the god in hers . |
| 15 | A total of 898 members of the Irish National Flying Club had 3,290 young birds in Penzance for the event in which they competed for £20,600 and a video sponsored by Salisbury Laboratories . |
| 16 | To me the Navy has always been unrivalled for the style in which it clothes ceremonial occasions , and these dinners , from the entry of the President 's party heralded by nautical airs from the marine band , to the ritual procession of the baron of beef through to the ( sometimes seated ) loyal toast , are no exception . |
| 17 | All kinds of thoughts raced through my mind as I waited for the explosion in our midst . |
| 18 | There are those critics of the polytechnics who regard this as a most unfortunate development and would go so far as to castigate them for betraying their primary purpose , which they see as providing for the communities in which they are located , something which of necessity can only be done primarily through part-time provision . |
| 19 | We pray for the communities in which you have placed us . |
| 20 | That statement is true for the components in whatever directions we are pleased to choose . |
| 21 | In those days , if you stuck an advert for the cinema in your window , you got free tickets , and long before I ever understood any kind of plot , we 'd all troop down to the local flea pit and watch whatever was showing . |
| 22 | Tom Williams , Labour Member for the constituency in which the colliery was situated , announced that it would be folly to continue the debate , and the dispute , perhaps not a very difficult one in any event , got itself settled . |
| 23 | He alluded , however , to the military administration 's complicity in the Luchaire arms exports and criticized the Defence Ministry 's use of " defence secrecy " in the selection of evidence for the trial in which it was the prosecuting party . |
| 24 | A woolly-jumpered Colin Wilson was photographed for the press in his Notting Hill bedsit and under the tree in Hampstead Heath where he had worked on his best-seller The Outsider , a paean to the existential rebel Wilson wished to be . |
| 25 | By showing in what circumstances a firm 's value would not be affected , Messrs Modigliani and Miller provided clues for the circumstances in which it might be . |
| 26 | Article 12 provides separately for the circumstances in which the execution of a letter of request may be refused , namely , |
| 27 | It is not however necessary to decide the point in the present case , and in any event cases of this kind are generally the subject of statutory régimes which legislate for the circumstances in which money so paid either must or may be repaid . |
| 28 | In G. v. Chief Constable for Stroud the Divisional Court made the point that in deciding whether or not the constable 's decision was a reasonable one , full allowance must be made for the circumstances in which the police find themselves in emergencies . |
| 29 | As for the circumstances in which an auditor might come under a duty to report , the banking act as well as the financial services act and the insurance companies act , uses , use the phrase in his capacity as auditor , here again we have no powers to clarify this on the face of the regulations . |
| 30 | I think I might enjoy writing end-of-term reports for the stinkers in my class . |