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

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1 With the game going into added time Michael Galwey , after good work by Geoghegan , Clarke and Bradley , got in for an Irish try .
2 MEMBERS of LASMO Nova Scotia 's relative response team recently checked in for a flying visit around the Halifax international heliport .
3 They yesterday found out which rating band their houses had been placed in for the new tax , which starts next April .
4 ‘ The players have to be prepared to put themselves into dangerous positions , to go in for a hard tackle , be brave and take the blows .
5 Everyone goes in for a little enhancement , one way or another .
6 ‘ Dejala , ’ they yelled as she rode in for the big swipe and missed it .
7 If , however , you feel unable to do this , it would still help us if the questionnaire could be filled in for the largest course , and some indication be given of provision in other courses .
8 The Acting Reporter from Strathclyde , Gordon Sloan , who had filled in for the past year , would continue to look after the cases with which he had been involved .
9 But the Signpost Hotel Guide survey of 300 hotel owners showed that fewer people are bothering use a false name when they book in for an illicit weekend .
10 Young Mrs M. looked shocked at the thought , so she waited outside , while I sprinted in for a quick glimpse at Bishop Stock 's former domain .
11 When Eddie gets the brush off from his new female boss ( the very wonderful Robin Givens ) , director Reggie Hudlin cues up comic reversals ( she stands him up , drops in for a quick fuck , he bleats about commitment ) , which may not quite reflect the complexity of modern sex wars ( no mention of Aids here ) but are still funny .
12 While it has come in for a certain amount of criticism , it has also attracted much praise , especially from industry .
13 Understandably , this presumption has come in for a great deal of criticism .
14 Nevertheless , Sun has come in for no small amount of criticism in pursuing what is often strictly an ‘ invented here ’ approach to technology solutions , at the expense of making some pragmatic marketing decisions .
15 What I might actually do it see if Ian 's not doing anything if he not come in for the full time that they 're cleaning up , but come in for those sort of things .
16 and erm I used to do erm , keep a check on the flying times of the planes cos every forty hours they had to come in for a different check .
17 He never wrote entirely admiring reviews : ‘ It 's the essence of a book never to be perfect , ’ he said , ‘ so its writer must expect to come in for a little criticism . ’
18 We used to come in for a fair amount of ribbing and good-natured chaff , and remarks like , Was it a red sky this morning ?
19 She said politely , ‘ Would you like to come in for a last drink ? ’
20 He was recently fined £500 by the European Tour when , after a first round of 74 in his defence of the Mediterranean Open , he refused to come in for the requested press interview .
21 After dinner we continued to fiddle around with tackle and were joined by Mr. Ferguson and his son , Paul , who were also booked in for the same week .
22 River Island women 's range has already got party dresses in for the festive season .
23 Trading in for a smaller house or flat again releases considerable capital , which is often shared with the offspring .
24 Two people replied — a man who offered to take it away for a fiver and Mrs Morrison , who dropped in for a quick look and said she wanted something for her playroom .
25 Lio ! rt came in for a second run , but slower this time to allow for the big man 's unexpected agility .
26 After four weeks every group had interviewed four of the original subjects , plus others who came in for a single session , and they had all accumulated a great amount of material .
27 This meant that the married women left at home came in for a large share of the work about the croft .
28 Here and elsewhere , the police also came in for a fair amount of criticism — Punch portrayed London 's genial giants Gog and Magog dressed as policeman , defending themselves from the wrath of the respectable populace — and there were perfectly sound reasons for such discontent .
29 Specifically , in the case of Anthony Miers , the Royal Navy submariner who finally came in for a teeny bit of criticism over his methods of disposing of German seamen who rather inconveniently surrendered .
30 He went out and Sisteradmission-ward came in for a short while , and we reconstructed the story .
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