Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] in for a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Want to come in for a minute ? " |
| 2 | However , the Green Paper has come in for a variety of criticisms and there is little evidence that its recommendations will be acted upon in the short- or medium-term . |
| 3 | JACQUES Delors has come in for a lot of flak for the collapse of the Gatt world trade talks . |
| 4 | The prince has come in for a lot of criticism from the UN and the West for spending most of the past few months in China . |
| 5 | As you may already realise , once again the Almeida has gone in for a lot of posh posturing got up as a drama of social consciousness . |
| 6 | It started when a man working in the sorting office was suspended for refusing to stand in for a colleague who 'd gone sick . |
| 7 | I have been doing some work for a national charity recently and the director and one of the key office-bearers can not stand sight or sound of SARAH , which was a trifle awkward when she rang up once or twice ‘ wanting to pop in for a chat at your new office ’ . |
| 8 | They 'd laid in for a siege with dozens of eggs , cans of luncheon meat , and tea . |
| 9 | Then they 'd gone in for a look . |
| 10 | My hon. Friend the Member for Norfolk , North ( Mr. Howell ) spoke recently on the radio about his idea of paying , say , £100 a week to people joining a community task force , enabling them to obtain work experience and contribute to society , which does not simply mean filling in holes in the road but involves going in for a range of useful activities , from working on environmental improvements to caring for the vulnerable in society . |
| 11 | Firemen were called to the river Taff in Llandaff to rescue Eric , a 10-stone Irish Wolfhound who had got into deep water after deciding to go in for a swim . |
| 12 | I 'd like to go in for a bit , but there 's loads of people in there and I ai n't got no washing to do . |
| 13 | Hello er , I 'm phoning on behalf of Mrs Ada er she 's got to come in for a scan on the fourth of February , nine o'clock , now we 've only just got back from the hospital today , cos she oh , she had to go today for one , yeah , and we 've just |
| 14 | She 's not like thirty four weeks and the baby 's only twenty six and she 's got to stay in for a week at Southwood , then come home weekends and go back in . |
| 15 | It was Terry Rickards saying that he would like to drop in for a chat with Mr Dalgliesh if it would n't be too much bother and would nine be convenient ? |
| 16 | I 'll have booked in for a course in Bristol starting in September — an art course , no one cares what art students look like — or drama maybe . |
| 17 | There is no truth in the rumour that some of their number fancied joining in for a bit of a busman's/policeman 's holiday . |
| 18 | His widow said yesterday : ‘ Money started coming in for a Denholm Elliott Project without me appealing for it and we already have several thousand pounds from British donations as well as £5,000 from Ibiza , where we lived . |
| 19 | well drove out and turned , her bumper caught Mick 's wing and right up against the wheel so imagine to pull it out to drive it and the driver said oh wo n't claim on the insurance she said , erm , I 'll pay it , get three estimates and let me have them and Mick said it 's gon na be about three hundred quid , well if it had gone through the insurance he could then have put in for a hire car |
| 20 | Do I get invited in for a coffee or what ? ’ |
| 21 | They were preparing to check in for a flight to Tokyo . |
| 22 | She had been accepted for the job at Ardis & Co , looking the way she normally looked , but if to keep her job — and she had no idea at that stage whether there was a Vasey junior , or similar , at G Vasey Ltd — she had to go in for a bit of de glamorisation , then so be it . |
| 23 | If you 'd care to come in for a cup of tea , now that you 've got out and everything , you 'd be most welcome . |
| 24 | He had come in for a book of stamps , and when he had got it he joined Breeze , who was waiting on the Green . |
| 25 | If the literary establishment had thought to compare notes they would have realized that every male aura on and off Fleet Street had come in for a bashing . |
| 26 | Terrifically glad if you could bear to look in for a drink the next time you 're in town . |
| 27 | Duncan was dug in at the bottom of the orchard and had called in for a chat on his way from Brigade H.Q He was very interested in bagpipe music , having served with the Gordon Highlanders before joining the Commandos . |
| 28 | Well , we 've done that , as we said we would and of course , in a business such as Pearson , which is a people business er , although we regularly monitor employment statistics , such as total employ total number of employees er , revenue per employee , cost per employee , profit per employee , there are times when we have to take er , difficult decisions and er , so we 've gone in for a lot of redundancy , which we 'll see in , in er during the next slide or two . |