Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] in for a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nobody visited them in the evenings or dropped in for a chat during the day , except in the way of business — to sell wood to Uncle Philip or to arrange a booking for Francie and his fiddle . |
| 2 | Chris , tall , lithe and manly , strips off and goes in for a swim in his panda-briefs . |
| 3 | Yeah , and if goes in for a pint he gives you a packet now . |
| 4 | Hard to feel sorry for the laird , who would have watched the sweating workers from his window , hands in pockets , listening for the doorbell in case the king changed his mind and dropped in for a scone . |
| 5 | BIGGLES pilot Anthony West coolly landed his vintage Tiger Moth biplane right outside a secluded country pub — and swaggered in for a pint . |
| 6 | The price of oil would probably rise to more than $50 a barrel and dig in for a stay of some months . |
| 7 | Having been stung in a similar situation in their last league game when Gregor McKechnie called their bluff over a kickable penalty and scuttled in for a try , Tukalo tried to do likewise after Joe Munro had been caught offside in the Watsonian 22 , as Scott Hastings was called to arms to police Linton . |
| 8 | He stopped at the door and stared in for a minute . |
| 9 | It was the smell of a hundred bodies that had not been bathed for a week , of a hundred sets of clothes that had been lived and slept in for a week , of excreta and vomit trapped by the windows that had not been opened for a week . |
| 10 | Lindsey came on and sat in for a couple of numbers and really enjoyed being back on the boards with us lot . |
| 11 | The fuel gauge had gone on the blink shortly after the start , but pulling in for a pit-stop would cost him precious seconds . |