Sentence examples for find a stand-in from inspiring English sources

So 7am speak to producer, who takes the news brilliantly well and sets out to find a stand-in presenter.

The stage management would adjust its schedules and find a stand-in to sing the part of Tosca a week late, if, say, Mme Crespin were unavailable.

As if they were about to shoot the reenactment with real actors only to realize that it's virtually impossible to find a stand-in for Tiger Woods.

Never shy about stating his longstanding antipathy to Thatcher, Mr. Hare here found a stand-in of sorts for the country's leader in the character of the fearlessly pragmatic Marion French, a politician in the ascendant who is given to lines like, "God, how I hate all this human stuff".

Travel restrictions because of swine flu prevented the scheduled soloist, Nelson Freire, from flying in from Brazil, but the NSO found a fine stand-in in Markus Groh, the first-ever German winner of the Queen Elisabeth Competition in Brussels in 1995, who appeared with the NSO once before, playing Tchaikovsky's First at Wolf Trap in 2002.

With both the announced Polyphemus and his replacement being indisposed, the company was lucky to find a last minute stand-in as good as Matthew Rose, who sang the monster in the Royal Opera's production four years ago.

And while Ms. Peet had apparently planned to play Becca herself, she has found a happy stand-in.

Rogers found a Nixon stand-in to walk the paces during rehearsal and devised a book-lined suburban-den backdrop to bolster the regular-guy image Nixon wanted to project.

Finding a perfect stand-in is sometimes impossible.

It wasn't easy to find a stand-up espresso in those pre-Starbucks days, but -- more to the point -- it helped me to recognize the strength and authenticity of that city's not-especially-large Italian community.

If you can't find a stand-alone studio in your price range, consider a gym or fitness club that offers yoga as part of its class offerings.