Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] [verb] in for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As the snake closes in for the kill , its mouth sensors guide it with deadly accuracy . |
| 2 | But , as the striker moved in for the kill , the defender retrieved the situation with a splendid recovery tackle . |
| 3 | Nick Serota , director of the Tate , is at the moment coming in for a lot of criticism because he changes the displays every year . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | In Roman art or in an 18th century Temple of Worthies ( such as the one at Stowe ) the rules of rhetoric might be invoked to argue that the bust functions as synecdoche , the head standing in for the whole physical and active domain of the body . |
| 6 | You need the permission of the owner to go in for a title search so you 'd have to know the owner first . |
| 7 | er and therefore for that very reason do not like to see the Government going in for a whole series of embarrassing defeats er and erm getting into very grave difficulties with an important Bill and I therefore arise only to ask my Noble Friend er at the last minute would like to consider very seriously erm a conciliatory reply of whether accepting er the amendments with er or er or some of them er with er er er view to their reconsideration or asking those who propose them to defer them from to from today 's sitting , there 's still further sittings ahead , but whether he was prepared to ask them to give him a chance to reflect without incurring serious Government defeats to reflect further on whether further amendments can not and should not be made . |
| 8 | I wo n't wait for the card , for the bill to come in for the card . |
| 9 | We were , yes , cos that 's when I went on to the crane driving in for a crane and got it you see , that 's why I finished up as a crane driver until I went stevedoring . |
| 10 | Now the old-fashioned , strong hessian is wonderful for keeping you warm and dry and John always sported three sacks — one round his waist , another over his shoulders , and the third with the corner pushed in for a hood over his head . |
| 11 | The Defence Minister barely flinched as the camera zoomed in for a close-up of his face as they ran the famous film clip from mid-December , 1987 , in which he promised that it would all be over by Christmas . |
| 12 | The Defence Minister barely flinched as the camera zoomed in for a close-up of his face as they ran the famous film clip from mid-December , 1987 , in which he promised that it would all be over by Christmas . |
| 13 | The world fell in for the hard-working TV star and his family as he drove home alone after an engagement opening a carpet store in the Midlands . |
| 14 | The National Lottery will be the enemy of proper planning in all areas ; it will encourage short-term thinking , and it will be the perfect excuse for the Treasury to go in for the kind of sleight-of-hand just described . |
| 15 | Then , when the predator moves in for the kill , at the very last moment the butterfly fish switch direction and dash rapidly forward , leaving the frustrated would-be killers snapping at empty water . |
| 16 | Headlines like RAPIST OF 16 WAS LIKE A VULTURE GOING IN FOR THE KILL and TOMBSTONE RAPIST LIKE A VULTURE ? couple of popular dailies , but the first was from The Times and the second from the Sun . |
| 17 | Furthermore , even if a woman paid in for a full pension she had to pass the ‘ half test ’ ; that is , she had to work for at least half of her married life before she could count in her contributions both before and after marriage ( Groves , 1983 , pp. 45–7 ) . |
| 18 | Eva said it had taken to wait a month to get in for a Saturday night . |
| 19 | A psychiatrist called in for the defence , Dr Nicholas Rice , told Exeter Crown Court he believed Mr Harris to be so abnormal his responsibility at the time of the stabbing was diminished . |
| 20 | If you are lucky you might get a codex thrown in for a good measure for telecomms application . |
| 21 | ‘ Court proceedings could be long and drawn out , and how do you prove when a player went in for a tackle he did it with intent to harm his opponent ? |
| 22 | A predator dashing in for the kill has no time to assess the minute details of the eyes to detect whether they are real or false . |
| 23 | Most fieldwork is simply episodic , made by an outsider moving in for a period to assess observed social behaviour . |