Example sentences of "[verb] in for a [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only got in for a few minutes as half the church was there . |
| 2 | Take this tiny sample : Leopold Bloom , the Dublin Jew , with his touching mixture of timorousness and courage , has looked in for a few moments at a church as a Mass is ending . |
| 3 | I am bound to say My Lords that my own view is still that the size within the limits laid down by statute with a minimum of sixteen or eighteen and maximum of twenty-four would best be determined locally and if we 're not going in for a national police force , I still ca n't see what it has to do with the Secretary of State and why the Home Office should be settling the size of forty-three or so police authorities . |
| 4 | We sailed into a murky , airless dawn veiled by the thin drizzle of a Scotch Mist , and I turned in for a few hours . |
| 5 | Contentedly I went below and turned in for a few hours , leaving my colleague to navigate . |
| 6 | Ramesh K was then brought in for a few minutes . |
| 7 | After the fish had settled in for a few days , one that I had thought to be a male showed signs of filling eggs , and developed a bright yellow patch on her belly . |
| 8 | I 've only popped in for a few minutes . |
| 9 | At the present pace of progress in Brussels , similar changes throughout the EC may not come in for a dozen years or more , and British farmers fear that they will lose business while waiting for European competitors to catch up . |
| 10 | Do you think I might come in for a few minutes and talk to you about Matilda ? ’ |
| 11 | Andy had n't meant any more than his pressing need to stay in for a few weeks till he had made more headway with his revision . |
| 12 | Even so , it was not unusual for friends and kinsmen to drop in for a few minutes , an hour , to see the news or a comedy . |