Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] in for [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Beyond pouring oil on troubled waters , the Queen can do no more than dig in for the long wait , guided by her husband . |
| 2 | Like those boys that come in for a single rose as if nobody 's ever done that before . |
| 3 | Some universities now have deputy or pro vice chancellors , who chair major committees and stand in for the vice chancellor . |
| 4 | Contentedly I went below and turned in for a few hours , leaving my colleague to navigate . |
| 5 | On every channel earnest-looking men with maps and pointers , looking like war-gamers in some fiendish Pentagon basement , demonstrate — predict , even — the inch-by-inch path that the storm is taking , noting that it usually passes off to the north , but may perhaps curve back upon itself and go in for a second strike . |
| 6 | Gregor Townsend later managed to pass to the referee — clad in near identical colours to the Scots — for the Samoans to plunder ball and scuttle in for the first of their three tries , though it might have been more had we not seen defensive heroics typified by a timely tackle on Leilane Une by Derek Turnbull . |
| 7 | Deities are sometimes shown with sword , spear , or shield ; sometimes the objects appear alone , as if standing in for an absent deity . |
| 8 | She struggled and was nearly countered , but then negated Wu 's defence and slipped in for a one-armed shoulder throw . |