Example sentences of "have [vb pp] [adv prt] for a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While it has come in for a certain amount of criticism , it has also attracted much praise , especially from industry . |
| 2 | Understandably , this presumption has come in for a great deal of criticism . |
| 3 | Take this tiny sample : Leopold Bloom , the Dublin Jew , with his touching mixture of timorousness and courage , has looked in for a few moments at a church as a Mass is ending . |
| 4 | Meanwhile , West Ham defender Julian Dicks has revved up for a big-match return tonight — thanks to a £10,000 Harley Davidson . |
| 5 | ‘ What has made it particularly difficult , for manufacturers of all sizes , but most of all for smaller ones , is that it has gone on for a long time . |
| 6 | Bob did not retire immediately as he has worked on for a few months to introduced new salesmen to their areas . |
| 7 | A forty year old airliner that seats just fourteen passengers has taken off for a new lease of life in Australia . |
| 8 | West Indian pace bowler Ken McLeod has signed up for a second stint at Synthonia after being absent from the league for three years . |
| 9 | Reed has signed up for a further period of seven years to publish the back list of John Steinbeck , after submitting a lavish brochure of marketing plans to the estate . |
| 10 | Does any hon. Member seriously think that , after Britain has signed up for a single currency , we could go to war on our own and expect the 11 countries who share the same currency to stand idly by and see the value of their currency wrecked , for ever depreciating , just because Britain was in one of its periodic warmongering fits ? |
| 11 | I was expecting you , of course , but I must have dropped off for a few minutes . ’ |
| 12 | Maybe I should have hung on for a few days in there getting to grips with Alf Bundy 's ailments . |
| 13 | At 133 for 2 , England might have fought back for an honourable draw ; or they might not . |
| 14 | If I 'd been a union member I might have held out for a better offer or some redundancy money , but I was n't , so that was that . |
| 15 | It also seemed , from the feathers on the kitchen floor , that one of the pigeons had come down for a warm and had got too close . |
| 16 | All through this they 've cried out for a modern definition . |
| 17 | I paid Barry the fifteen dollars we had agreed on for a small , black Andean Equipment daysack to keep my new notebooks in and left him selling jewellery to his tour group . |
| 18 | But there 's something else — something else they 've known about for a long time but kept to themselves . ’ |
| 19 | After the fish had settled in for a few days , one that I had thought to be a male showed signs of filling eggs , and developed a bright yellow patch on her belly . |
| 20 | They had gone on for a long distance , before arriving at a door in a long , anonymous wall ; the letter bearer , a gloomily serious young man with eyebrows which met across his brow , maintaining a severe silence throughout the journey . |
| 21 | He went quickly downstairs and left a note for his mother saying that he could n't sleep and had gone out for an early morning bike ride . |
| 22 | And this is , I mean , what they 're asking , actually to be fair to them they 've put in for a thousand pound against three . |
| 23 | Robert Meaby , whose brother Brian and the Eastbourne captain had been on the wrong end of a five and four beating in the bottom match , had with Christopher Walker already enjoyed a fair share of excitement , halving the shorter length with a birdie putt after Shrewsbury had chipped in for a two . |
| 24 | As the entrance requirements for universities , colleges and the professions have become more demanding in recent years , so increasing numbers have stayed on for a Sixth Year to study for Certificate of Sixth Year Studies examinations , to take ‘ crash ’ courses or modules in new subjects or to upgrade their existing results . |
| 25 | This ranks as one of the few occasions in the past 20 years when I have forked out for a little bottle . |
| 26 | Was this something recent or something you have known about for a long time ? ’ |
| 27 | Both have gone on for a long time . |
| 28 | She 's gone over for a closer look . ’ |