Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] in for [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was only joining in for the sake of the others because Murder in the Dark is more fun with five than with four . |
| 2 | We 've already seen how carefully planned customer flow can encourage the shopper to leave with a loaded basket when she had only popped in for a loaf of bread or a pint of milk . |
| 3 | She said she could n't stay , that she had just dropped in for a minute . |
| 4 | The successful receptionist models could be used to devise special training to enable CAB receptionists to ascertain the depth of a problem ; they could serve the dual function of assessing which clients have just come in for a form or a local address and they could make appointments for others in person or by telephone and smooth the queue . |
| 5 | The wh he said in fact it 's just come in for the programme or something has n't it . |
| 6 | Just drop in for a cup of tea , |
| 7 | dad , dad did n't say nothing about all evening just pop in for an hour , but I could n't see Stuey and me sitting there disturb him , scared |
| 8 | Even when I arrived back at Thornfield , I did not go in for a while . |
| 9 | Ca n't think in the arts , in the art bit so I just I just go in for a coffee as well , yeah . |
| 10 | And is that for children who are living there or just go in for the day ? |
| 11 | Just go in for the day till their parents go to work I think . |
| 12 | " I just looked in for a moment to see how you were getting on together . |
| 13 | Although tankers did not come in for the attention they received in the 1980s , on 25 January Platt 's carried an account of an attack on an Iraqi tanker by US aircraft . |
| 14 | He was lonely and broke and had already barged in for the loan of a cupful of Quaker oats . |
| 15 | But even that may not help as the worker may be waylaid by those who have ‘ just come in for a form ’ or an address or have to collect their children from school in five minutes . |
| 16 | It 's different here , Léonie tried to explain : in our kitchen in London no one ever drops in for a chat . |
| 17 | Well , before mid-afternoon all the men — and extra help always came in for the threshing — were incapable of working . |
| 18 | But he looked far from confident facing an Indian legspinner , specially drafted in for the occasion by manager Keith Fletcher . |
| 19 | And as often as you tell yourself she 's not your type , that you do n't like blondes , your taste tends towards the browns , even redheads but not blondes , no ; and what 's more , her face is round , but you do n't like round faces ; and you 've always gone in for a bit of shape and she 's flat as a pancake . |
| 20 | Every Thursday is given over to a drop-in day , which is open to the previous year 's group to come back or to any girl on home-teaching , and sometimes girls from three or four years back may also drop in for a chat or advice . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | ‘ Sorry , no , ’ Ellie said dismissively , and if Phena thought she was also coming in for a chat she was mistaken . |
| 23 | Fibres also went in for a spot of acquisition , buying into the British texturizing industry to give downstream processing capability . |
| 24 | Again , the vice chancellor is nominally a deputy to the chancellor , but in reality is the chief academic and administrative officer of a university , in charge of its day-to-day running ( though he or she does also stand in for the chancellor on ceremonial occasions ) . |
| 25 | Well you see and I 've also put in for a job for the the marina at Northampton which is another mental home . |
| 26 | The you so pointedly admonished is the addressee of the poem , Torquatus , a representative Roman , fictionally standing in for the reader at large . |
| 27 | And by the way , I have an appointment in the city around eleven , so I may not be back to stand in for the dinner breaks . |
| 28 | The wolf had cornered his prey and was now moving in for the kill . |
| 29 | A few minutes ' walk away the Boulevard Gallieni has been renamed the Boulevard Soummam but it is still spectacular : wide enough for the sun to congregate here for most of the day , not simply dropping in for an hour as it always has to in the canyon streets of Manhattan . |
| 30 | Might as well go in for a bit because . |