Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] in for the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 But , as the striker moved in for the kill , the defender retrieved the situation with a splendid recovery tackle .
2 The court room at the Old Bailey was hushed dock went in for the jury to return for their verdict .
3 His art emerges as the product of the extreme poverty of his early years when sex was cheaper than food and where the circus stood in for the corrida .
4 And , imagine all that loose change brought in for the gambling machines bouncing high like metal sparks .
5 A £1,000 computer , several orders of magnitude more powerful than machines which cost £3,000 even five years ago , has very little profit built in for the supplier .
6 Despite competition from shops offering antiques and locally crafted furniture , Fox 's Lair came in for the bulk of the publicity .
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