Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [verb] in [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The prince has come in for a lot of criticism from the UN and the West for spending most of the past few months in China . |
| 2 | ‘ Mind this patch , it 's slippery , ’ Weasel warned as he traversed a landing where snow had drifted in through a broken skylight . |
| 3 | Members of the High Coniscliffe Women 's Institute have chipped in with a £200 donation and the Darlington Chrysanthemum and Dahlia Society raised £100 . |
| 4 | When a larger group came tramping in behind a piper , Cameron and Menzies recognized some stalwarts from Foss on Tummel . |
| 5 | His widow said yesterday : ‘ Money started coming in for a Denholm Elliott Project without me appealing for it and we already have several thousand pounds from British donations as well as £5,000 from Ibiza , where we lived . |
| 6 | However , the Green Paper has come in for a variety of criticisms and there is little evidence that its recommendations will be acted upon in the short- or medium-term . |
| 7 | It would be a superior tramp to have come in with a key . |
| 8 | An elderly female novelist had come in at a quarter to six and Penelope had found herself trying to explain why her latest novel had not been reviewed in the Sunday Telegraph , why it had not been advertised more widely , why copies had not been displayed on the bookstall of a friend 's local station , why it had not yet been reprinted . |
| 9 | There is no truth in the rumour that some of their number fancied joining in for a bit of a busman's/policeman 's holiday . |
| 10 | But one of them is a copy-editor , I think that is what he is called , and he told me that he thought the item had come in from a friend of Leila 's . ’ |
| 11 | Just before airtime , a story had come in on a drug bust : space was hastily made for this . |
| 12 | That helped meet police costs that rose by 16 per cent to a record level of £9.28m , although the Trust did weigh in with a £2.24m contribution . |
| 13 | Understandably , this presumption has come in for a great deal of criticism . |
| 14 | Experience with rural advice in the north east area has shown that telephone advisers become skilled at solving basic problems over the phone and recognising those where the client needs to come in to a bureau for in-depth advice . |