Example sentences of "[be] [verb] in for a [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Movement , scent and sound can give you away when you 're heading in for a close up shot .
2 A twenty year old man has been called in for a chat with an inspector .
3 UB may be pencilled in for a show in the King 's Hall on January
4 ‘ Malcolm may be coming in for a couple of days each week , ’ said Rofe .
5 HP is known to have been casing the industry for new directions — a process witnessed by the winding down of its New Wave interface efforts — and is now thought to be closing in for a piece of Taligent Inc ( UX No 417 ) , the Apple Computer Inc/IBM Corp joint venture on object-oriented operating system technology .
6 They could get quite boisterous and reckless , especially during the early days , when they would be shut in for a while .
7 Almost every word has been put in for a purpose and needs to be commented upon .
8 His clothes clung to his tall , slender frame , though they were slightly mussed after being slept in for a week .
9 ‘ People were very friendly and we were invited in for a number of cups of tea during our stay , ’ PC Mardon said .
10 The house was n't run-down , either , but there were touches here and there betraying the fact 64 that it had n't been lived in for a couple of years ; the windows that were n't shuttered were n't clean , and there were weeds pushing up through the gravel .
11 But her deep tanned face had been lived in for a fistful of decades .
12 ‘ All you have to do is hang in for a couple of days , ’ she told herself .
13 ‘ The only problem is , my car is going in for a service , so maybe you could do me a favour and give me a lift there ?
14 I realized that this was the same place Brian and I had been held in for a week in May 1988 before going to the Pit .
15 After that , it too was turned in for a Qualcast with loppy handles and collapsible wheels .
16 Monaru was bought in for a course record of 11,500 gns after winning the Carlsberg Selling Hurdle but Pipe had no complaints and said : ‘ People do n't have to run in sellers if they do n't want to .
17 Evans said they should get Jack Nicholson for the role and he was invited in for a try-out .
18 And he was moving in my direction , although I did n't know he was coming in for a photograph .
19 He was taken in for a moment , and believed her .
20 He expected to be there for only three or four days , but he was kept in for a fortnight .
21 Actually , before he moved away , he , he gave up his designing job and he was working in for a bit .
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