Example sentences of "[pron] [be] [adv] [verb] in for " in BNC.

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1 And er I thought well I wo n't really , and I probably did n't like losing anyway you know I I I was never a good loser I do n't think , and I thought no I sha n't get many votes and I 'll look silly I 'm not putting in for it .
2 ‘ Good old Acapulco — someone 's always dropping in for lunch ’
3 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 .
4 ‘ Sorry , no , ’ Ellie said dismissively , and if Phena thought she was also coming in for a chat she was mistaken .
5 ‘ I 'm sure she was n't taken in for a moment about — about me . ’
6 She was only joining in for the sake of the others because Murder in the Dark is more fun with five than with four .
7 I also , er , we are also putting in for your community computing scheme , erm , realising that it will not only , if we get it , increase our own expertise and make us more efficient , which heaven knows , all organisations need to be , but will also be ab enable us to give advice to all the organisations we represent , and thus have an enormous ripple effect .
8 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 .
9 We had been conducting the German youths on tours of our favourite places in the city — to the bullring , the restaurants , the bars , the River Tormes , the Casa de Santa Teresa , the Antiguo Colegio Mayor de Iriandeses , San Martin ( where we were nearly locked in for the night ) and to the conventual church of San Esteban .
10 Instead of the dominant males moving in and taking over the females during the breeding period , they are simply allowed in for mating only and then driven out again .
11 Yeah , he 's not pulling in for me , he 's pulling in for himself I think actually .
12 He 's not going in for any pretending over a baby unless he comes in for a share of the cash , bloody ridiculous it is .
13 He was n't going in for the Eddie .
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