Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] in for the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Wroughton airfield near Swindon was the busiest in the world this weekend , as more than fifteen hundred aircraft flew in for the largest rally of its kind outside the United States .
2 Back in the good old days , you could manage your practice with nothing more complicated or technologically advanced than a pen , paper and adding machine , with a manual typewriter thrown in for the real forward thinkers .
3 The route has now taken a bit of hammering with a Yugoslav bagging the third ascent and Sean Myles and Andy Pollitt steaming in for the fourth and fifth ascents soon afterwards .
4 Shane Warne , whose solitary wicket of the series had cost him 228 runs , was rested , while Tom Moody came in for the out-of-form Mark Waugh .
5 Greed came in for the first time .
6 When the programme 's ratings dipped immediately after the November revamp , Focus came in for the heaviest criticism .
7 ‘ Three weeks sitting in for the regular breakfast show jock on a commercial station there , while he takes over your show here .
8 Darren Jackson comes in for the suspended Mike Ford …
9 Later on the warbirds wing in for the big show .
10 In Roman art or in an 18th century Temple of Worthies ( such as the one at Stowe ) the rules of rhetoric might be invoked to argue that the bust functions as synecdoche , the head standing in for the whole physical and active domain of the body .
11 Alistair , Wendy and Anna come in for the worst of it .
12 Condensation might entail the one kind of subject and/or manifestation standing in for the whole domain of evil , incurring responsibility for the whole in the process of being made to signify it .
13 It 's only ten years since the Comedy Store opened , but already there is a note of wistfulness creeping in for the good old days .
14 The pal then puts his phone receiver to the radio and Mike listens in for the next 90 minutes — cost £6.75 .
15 The next report came in for the 3rd goal , and again said ‘ Leeds are beginning to get back into the match , but Norwich have scored a 3rd ’ … all other reports/comments just mention the goals .
16 The world fell in for the hard-working TV star and his family as he drove home alone after an engagement opening a carpet store in the Midlands .
17 River Island women 's range has already got party dresses in for the festive season .
18 Cy left the cast and Michael came in for the last two weeks of rehearsals .
19 Like Marx , William 's grandad went in for the broad dialectic of history and was n't too fussy about the fine print .
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