Example sentences of "and [verb] in for a [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Chris , tall , lithe and manly , strips off and goes in for a swim in his panda-briefs .
2 Hard to feel sorry for the laird , who would have watched the sweating workers from his window , hands in pockets , listening for the doorbell in case the king changed his mind and dropped in for a scone .
3 BIGGLES pilot Anthony West coolly landed his vintage Tiger Moth biplane right outside a secluded country pub — and swaggered in for a pint .
4 The price of oil would probably rise to more than $50 a barrel and dig in for a stay of some months .
5 Having been stung in a similar situation in their last league game when Gregor McKechnie called their bluff over a kickable penalty and scuttled in for a try , Tukalo tried to do likewise after Joe Munro had been caught offside in the Watsonian 22 , as Scott Hastings was called to arms to police Linton .
6 He stopped at the door and stared in for a minute .
7 It was the smell of a hundred bodies that had not been bathed for a week , of a hundred sets of clothes that had been lived and slept in for a week , of excreta and vomit trapped by the windows that had not been opened for a week .
8 Lindsey came on and sat in for a couple of numbers and really enjoyed being back on the boards with us lot .
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