Example sentences of "come [adv] for [art] [adj] [noun sg] " 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 | Nevertheless , Sun has come in for no small amount of criticism in pursuing what is often strictly an ‘ invented here ’ approach to technology solutions , at the expense of making some pragmatic marketing decisions . |
| 4 | What I might actually do it see if Ian 's not doing anything if he not come in for the full time that they 're cleaning up , but come in for those sort of things . |
| 5 | and erm I used to do erm , keep a check on the flying times of the planes cos every forty hours they had to come in for a different check . |
| 6 | He never wrote entirely admiring reviews : ‘ It 's the essence of a book never to be perfect , ’ he said , ‘ so its writer must expect to come in for a little criticism . ’ |
| 7 | We used to come in for a fair amount of ribbing and good-natured chaff , and remarks like , Was it a red sky this morning ? |
| 8 | She said politely , ‘ Would you like to come in for a last drink ? ’ |
| 9 | He was recently fined £500 by the European Tour when , after a first round of 74 in his defence of the Mediterranean Open , he refused to come in for the requested press interview . |
| 10 | Sixty miles they used to come over for a good evening at those and maybe two principles |
| 11 | She said : ‘ Try and persuade him to come home for a special tea . |
| 12 | Used to come up for the odd break . |
| 13 | I think she 's probably just come out for a quick stroll , we wo n't spend our time over that at the moment , hello |
| 14 | Forest , held to a 1-1 draw at the City Ground , were 3-1 ahead with 17 minutes of normal time left , and deservedly so ; they had come out for the second half bristling with determination to make quality tell . |
| 15 | Should n't we be opening our universities to older people , for people to come back for a second dose as it were , for retraining and so on ? |
| 16 | the idea was there and the structure and everything was there it was just that you had n't actually explained what you had to do first , you know , to come back with the erm recommendations erm but you did , you did get the date confirmed to come back for the second appointment which was good . |
| 17 | He came on for the injured Mumby and headed in a perfect Measham cross to score his first goal for the club . |
| 18 | Sterland came on for the last half-hour of this week 's 3-0 reserve team win over Manchester City at Maine Road , and yesterday declared : ‘ It went brilliantly . |
| 19 | The plane came down for a smooth landing amid the radar gear . |
| 20 | So Morag when she came down , came down for the whole week . |
| 21 | As the curtain came down for the fourth time the ‘ helpers ’ all gave a huge sigh and reverted back to responsible adults ! |
| 22 | The paths of two lives , or three to be exact , came together for a little while and then separated . |
| 23 | Some thirty graduates of the degree came together for an excellent meal in University House , followed by an informal update from one of the joint organisers of the reunion , Keith Moffitt , on the whereabouts of those who had been unable to attend . |
| 24 | It was on this trip that a remarkable partnership came together for the first time . |
| 25 | Four of the five protagonists of this story — Greco-Macedonians , Romans , Jews and Celts — came together for the first time in the Hellenistic period . |
| 26 | Lio ! rt came in for a second run , but slower this time to allow for the big man 's unexpected agility . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | This meant that the married women left at home came in for a large share of the work about the croft . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |