Example sentences of "[noun sg] coming [adv prt] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nick Serota , director of the Tate , is at the moment coming in for a lot of criticism because he changes the displays every year . |
| 2 | This year I have my mummy and my daddy coming up for a couple of days and that will be fine |
| 3 | His piece had clearly been written more in anger than in sorrow , the landlord 's indiscrimination coming in for as much disapprobation as the racist high spirits shown by the Young Conservatives . |
| 4 | What I find though , erm , becau my , because we got so much stuff coming in for the shop anyway , like the lettuce or the fruit and veg , my parents don , you know , like most people go , yo your mother probably goes , how many , how often does she make a shopping trip ? |
| 5 | It was during a short stay in December 1986 with friends at their cottage near the village of Carno in beautiful Mid Wales that first learnt of a nearby former railway station coming up for sale . |
| 6 | ‘ Is thoo coming in for a cup o' tea ? ’ his father invited , but George shook his head . |
| 7 | Do n't you come across many teachers who say something along the lines ‘ I 'd love to try this experiment ’ , or ‘ I 'd like to try this in a different way , but I have C S E or O level or A level coming up for my children in a term or a year and I ca n't possibly afford to do other than cram them for these examinations ’ . |
| 8 | So at least there 's income coming in for three months at the rate of your salary . |
| 9 | The regional conference one , er since there is a regional transport paper coming up for debate er in in which I had er a hand as regional erm policy chairman , er the the the Worsley motion er will in fact be taken as a an amendment er to that regional paper which is coming up er at the Southport conference . |
| 10 | Right paper coming round for people who are ready to copy the questions out . |
| 11 | It is the voice of the disillusioned and disgruntled George Bowling — ‘ nerves all worn to bits , empty places in our bones where the marrow ought to be ’ — in Orwell 's pre-war novel Coming Up for Air . |
| 12 | A very important time coming up for the club , some very important games , no more important to people in this area than the game at Swindon on Tuesday night , But then away to Middlesborough , home to West Ham , still something to play for for Oxford United this season if the results keep going their way ? |
| 13 | Very important time coming up for United — really can resurrect a fair bit of the season with what , the game at Swindon on Tuesday , Middlesborough away , West Ham at home ; good results in those games really could put a bit of a gloss on the season ? |