Example sentences of "[noun sg] have [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 | 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 . |
| 5 | It would be a superior tramp to have come in with a key . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . ’ |
| 8 | Just before airtime , a story had come in on a drug bust : space was hastily made for this . |
| 9 | Understandably , this presumption has come in for a great deal of criticism . |