Example sentences of "[vb past] in for [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With the game going into added time Michael Galwey , after good work by Geoghegan , Clarke and Bradley , got in for an Irish try . |
| 2 | ‘ Dejala , ’ they yelled as she rode in for the big swipe and missed it . |
| 3 | Young Mrs M. looked shocked at the thought , so she waited outside , while I sprinted in for a quick glimpse at Bishop Stock 's former domain . |
| 4 | Two people replied — a man who offered to take it away for a fiver and Mrs Morrison , who dropped in for a quick look and said she wanted something for her playroom . |
| 5 | After four weeks every group had interviewed four of the original subjects , plus others who came in for a single session , and they had all accumulated a great amount of material . |
| 6 | This meant that the married women left at home came in for a large share of the work about the croft . |
| 7 | Here and elsewhere , the police also came in for a fair amount of criticism — Punch portrayed London 's genial giants Gog and Magog dressed as policeman , defending themselves from the wrath of the respectable populace — and there were perfectly sound reasons for such discontent . |
| 8 | Specifically , in the case of Anthony Miers , the Royal Navy submariner who finally came in for a teeny bit of criticism over his methods of disposing of German seamen who rather inconveniently surrendered . |
| 9 | He went out and Sisteradmission-ward came in for a short while , and we reconstructed the story . |
| 10 | 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 ) . |
| 11 | I popped in for a short while to the Scottish Gallery in Cork Street , to see the most recent sculptures by Gerald Laing . |
| 12 | Eliza settled in for a four-month stint of painting and drawing . |
| 13 | The restaurant was subdued as the Conservative Party 's young ‘ spin doctors ’ settled in for a brisk dinner . |
| 14 | For instance , I have today recorded a radio interview in Welsh stressing the need to have an application for quarrying on the Carmel Woods SSSI called in for a public inquiry . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | His father , however , preferred that Farrar went in for a professional career , and Farrar was articled to a firm of architects and surveyors in Northampton , becoming a Fellow of the Geographical Society . |
| 17 | Went in for a hot chocolate and that was it we did n't |
| 18 | Like Marx , William 's grandad went in for the broad dialectic of history and was n't too fussy about the fine print . |
| 19 | She struggled and was nearly countered , but then negated Wu 's defence and slipped in for a one-armed shoulder throw . |