Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] [adv] for a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | JACQUES Delors has come in for a lot of flak for the collapse of the Gatt world trade talks . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Pam has come down for a day of shopping , bringing along our adopted younger sister Kath . |
| 5 | Durham Green Party has criticised the Government 's plan to stabilise carbon dioxide emissions at 1990 levels by the year 2000 , and has called instead for a 50pc reduction . |
| 6 | The Old Swan has become home for a Sunday School class , in order to offer customers a spiritual experience of a different kind . |
| 7 | Matt has asked particularly for a device which can be interfaced with a computer so I have searched through my data library in order to find a short-list of suitable devices . |
| 8 | BOXER Michael Watson has gone home for a family Christmas to help with his recovery . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The Government allowed users a price cap as a transitional measure , but it has run only for a year , until March 1991 . |
| 11 | Microsoft 's Windows NT group has signed up for a 20ft by 20ft booth , claiming it does n't have the budget for a bigger space . |
| 12 | Cleveland Ambulance NHS Trust has signed up for a Department of Health initiative which encourages healthy living for all staff . |
| 13 | And then how would I have felt , she asked herself as she hurled the jeep down the motorway , finding that I 'd fallen again for a man as cold and hard as that — finding out when it was too late what he was really like ? |
| 14 | They 'd laid in for a siege with dozens of eggs , cans of luncheon meat , and tea . |
| 15 | Then they 'd gone in for a look . |
| 16 | She wondered if the others were playing a joke on her : perhaps they 'd gone out for a walk ; perhaps , at this very moment , they were laughing at the thought of her waiting for a killer who would never come . |
| 17 | I had this octopus once in Germany and it , we 'd gone out for a meal and I was gon na have steak and mushrooms and |
| 18 | Cowslip seemed taken aback for a moment . |
| 19 | ‘ I took a plumbers apprenticeship when I left school , ’ he said , ‘ But after I 'd worked here for a while , I decided to stay on full time . ’ |
| 20 | I married Melanie , if I 'm honest , because she was the only one who 'd held out for a wedding-ring . ’ |
| 21 | It was not until they moved to Brisbane that life became settled enough for a house to hold much significance . |
| 22 | ‘ Well , ’ Yanto began hastily , ‘ I was told he got pinned down for a week in no-man 's land during the battle of the Somme in 1916 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Those who made the journey to London might have done so for a variety of reasons . |
| 25 | I may have dozed off for a while . |
| 26 | He came out of the clinic on 19 March having stayed there for a week longer than he had anticipated , and was once again forced to rest . |
| 27 | The rain having petered out for a while , we all went out to stare at the sunset , about which the two poets made lurid remarks . |
| 28 | " Did he die almost immediately , or is there any possibility that he could have walked about for a time , even locked the door and set the alarms ? " |
| 29 | 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 |
| 30 | " If he went in at Hew at midnight , he would n't have started downstream for an hour or so . " |