Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] in for the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean given that you 've got a , oh I do n't know , a pound you 're going to spend a week in gambling entertainment , if I could put it that way , you 'd do better to go in for the pools , because if you did have a win you might have a big one , than to put it on a horse — am I right ? |
| 2 | She was only joining in for the sake of the others because Murder in the Dark is more fun with five than with four . |
| 3 | The wh he said in fact it 's just come in for the programme or something has n't it . |
| 4 | And is that for children who are living there or just go in for the day ? |
| 5 | Just go in for the day till their parents go to work I think . |
| 6 | He was lonely and broke and had already barged in for the loan of a cupful of Quaker oats . |
| 7 | Well , before mid-afternoon all the men — and extra help always came in for the threshing — were incapable of working . |
| 8 | But he looked far from confident facing an Indian legspinner , specially drafted in for the occasion by manager Keith Fletcher . |
| 9 | We had been conducting the German youths on tours of our favourite places in the city — to the bullring , the restaurants , the bars , the River Tormes , the Casa de Santa Teresa , the Antiguo Colegio Mayor de Iriandeses , San Martin ( where we were nearly locked in for the night ) and to the conventual church of San Esteban . |
| 10 | Again , the vice chancellor is nominally a deputy to the chancellor , but in reality is the chief academic and administrative officer of a university , in charge of its day-to-day running ( though he or she does also stand in for the chancellor on ceremonial occasions ) . |
| 11 | The you so pointedly admonished is the addressee of the poem , Torquatus , a representative Roman , fictionally standing in for the reader at large . |
| 12 | The wolf had cornered his prey and was now moving in for the kill . |
| 13 | And the other one , seeing as it was like September October , getting cold , my mum said well the bed 's empty , you might as well come in for the winter and stay here . |
| 14 | He probably worked on all his victims this way — softening them up , earning their trust and then moving in for the kill . |
| 15 | Sympathetic murmurs greet this delicate reference to her own spinsterhood , and the hunters then move in for the kill . |