Sentence examples for had substituted for from inspiring English sources

One night the Nat King Cole Trio had substituted for the Mills Brothers, and as Mr. Cole stood backstage and glimpsed her as she sang, he was smitten.

It was the second night of the run; on the first, the tenor John Mac Master had substituted for the ailing Ben Heppner, and had reportedly fallen somewhat short of adequacy, facing La Scala-style boos at curtain call.

But a surgeon at the jail suspected that Cavanagh had "taken a portion of it daily and had substituted for it some water... or some fluid which I shall not specify...

Mr. Lortie had substituted for her in San Francisco a couple of weeks ago and knew the piece she was scheduled to play, Schumann's Concerto in A minor, Opus 54.

Like the Plumbs, Edgar and Fern, a formerly happy couple, are forced to reckon not only with money's central place in their personal identities but also with the extent to which money had substituted for intimacy between them.

He was in such bad shape in the early 1990's -- lethargic from tranquilizers and bloated by the 25 Coca-Colas a day he had substituted for alcohol -- that sometimes Berge had to literally push him onto the runway after his shows.

Savage gallows humor might have substituted for pathos.

Later theories of motivation have substituted for libido such related terms as drive and tension.

leaving him to amuse himself with the cameras, tape recorder, & transistor radio that they have substituted for their love and interest.

The congressman's ex-wife is still a political ally, however, and has substituted for Mr. Dickey in a debate with Mr. Ross.

It has substituted for the humanistic conception of culture a system of education which develops out of the fellowship of actual battle".