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Example sentences of "come [adv] for a [adj] [noun] " 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	Sixty miles they used to come over for a good evening at those and maybe two principles
7	She said : ‘ Try and persuade him to come home for a special tea .
8	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
9	The plane came down for a smooth landing amid the radar gear .
10	The paths of two lives , or three to be exact , came together for a little while and then separated .
11	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 .
12	This meant that the married women left at home came in for a large share of the work about the croft .
13	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 .
14	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 .
15	He went out and Sisteradmission-ward came in for a short while , and we reconstructed the story .
16	I came over for a short visit when my parents first moved here … ’
17	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 .
18	They all just came back for a regular routine follow up , just a little bit late .
19	She did that for half an hour and he only came round for a short time .
20	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 .
21	Still , I should be coming in for a tidy sum of compensation .
22	Raimondo , the designer , was frantic ; an oil-rich sheikh was coming in for a private showing with his wives .
23	The gayer , shorter girls would come on for a general dance to the Gavotte .
24	‘ Well , I 'll come along for a little while to the bonfire , but do n't accept for me later .
25	They were told a carefully graduated series of lies : first that their mother was staying in hospital for a while , then that she might not come home for a long time , and finally that she might never come back .
26	so I thought you were going to cos you did n't come back for a long time .
27	Gladys wo n't ever come back for a little girl will it ?
28	Our lawyer took the idea to the court , and the judge altered the terms of Rickie 's bail to let him come here for a therapeutic cruise .
29	‘ I did n't come here for a boozy evening . ’
30	Erm I I look forward to hearing Mr 's views on on this particular matter given that he was the or or the department was was responsible for for in a sense prolonging the discussion to consider the breakdown of locations and as to whether he feels that there is sufficient technical information available on all of the sectors should a recommendation come forward for a particular sector from from the panel .