Example sentences of "come [adv prt] for [art] [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 | 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 | " Ask Dr. Lorrimer to come down for a few minutes , will you please ? " |
| 11 | I ask him to come down for a few days and I also invite Lady De Marr . |
| 12 | Sixty miles they used to come over for a good evening at those and maybe two principles |
| 13 | Before returning to England he was asked to persuade Gladstone to come over for the 1878 Yale ‘ commencement ’ but he would plead in vain . |
| 14 | Used to come up for the odd break . |
| 15 | 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 |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 ? |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | He came on for the injured Mumby and headed in a perfect Measham cross to score his first goal for the club . |
| 20 | The 29-year-old Scot , a £225,000 summer capture from Millwall , has struggled to find his form on Wearside but all that changed when he came on for the injured Don Goodman after just 12 minutes of Saturday 's game against Barnsley . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | The plane came down for a smooth landing amid the radar gear . |
| 23 | So Morag when she came down , came down for the whole week . |
| 24 | As the curtain came down for the fourth time the ‘ helpers ’ all gave a huge sigh and reverted back to responsible adults ! |
| 25 | Lio ! rt came in for a second run , but slower this time to allow for the big man 's unexpected agility . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | This meant that the married women left at home came in for a large share of the work about the croft . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | He went out and Sisteradmission-ward came in for a short while , and we reconstructed the story . |