Example sentences of "come [adv] for a [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 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . ’ |
| 5 | 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 ? |
| 6 | She said politely , ‘ Would you like to come in for a last drink ? ’ |
| 7 | Sixty miles they used to come over for a good evening at those and maybe two principles |
| 8 | She said : ‘ Try and persuade him to come home for a special tea . |
| 9 | 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 |
| 10 | 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 ? |
| 11 | The plane came down for a smooth landing amid the radar gear . |
| 12 | The paths of two lives , or three to be exact , came together for a little while and then separated . |
| 13 | Lio ! rt came in for a second run , but slower this time to allow for the big man 's unexpected agility . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | This meant that the married women left at home came in for a large share of the work about the croft . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | He went out and Sisteradmission-ward came in for a short while , and we reconstructed the story . |
| 19 | I came over for a short visit when my parents first moved here … ’ |
| 20 | At the end of September Violet came home for a long weekend and Perdita was so bloody-minded that in despair Daisy escaped to Harvest Festival for an hour of peace . |
| 21 | They all just came back for a regular routine follow up , just a little bit late . |
| 22 | The parents of the kids at the school where Mrs Rogers taught had her barred from the school , in case the hit squad came back for a second try . |
| 23 | When I was driving my new Granada in 1989 and dropped a friend down the road , a police car came past , saw the car with a black man driving it , circled round and came back for a second check . |
| 24 | The first attempt was almost a disaster , but he got the plane up again and came round for a second shot . |
| 25 | She did that for half an hour and he only came round for a short time . |
| 26 | Not because she could n't lose weight but because she enjoyed coming along for a weekly work-out session and it helped to keep her weight in check . |
| 27 | Still , I should be coming in for a tidy sum of compensation . |
| 28 | Raimondo , the designer , was frantic ; an oil-rich sheikh was coming in for a private showing with his wives . |
| 29 | ‘ I would seriously think about coming here for a longer stay if the right opportunity arose , but I do have a lot going for me back home , ’ said Lloyd , who spent his early years in Epping . |
| 30 | The gayer , shorter girls would come on for a general dance to the Gavotte . |