Example sentences of "had [verb] in for [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had been accepted for the job at Ardis & Co , looking the way she normally looked , but if to keep her job — and she had no idea at that stage whether there was a Vasey junior , or similar , at G Vasey Ltd — she had to go in for a bit of de glamorisation , then so be it . |
| 2 | He had come in for a book of stamps , and when he had got it he joined Breeze , who was waiting on the Green . |
| 3 | If the literary establishment had thought to compare notes they would have realized that every male aura on and off Fleet Street had come in for a bashing . |
| 4 | It had come in for the attack . |
| 5 | Duncan was dug in at the bottom of the orchard and had called in for a chat on his way from Brigade H.Q He was very interested in bagpipe music , having served with the Gordon Highlanders before joining the Commandos . |
| 6 | The driver of the van had been wanted for questioning , and the way CI5 had gone in for the arrest had clearly been the direct cause of the van 's destruction on the hot end of the booby-trap bomb it had been carrying . |
| 7 | An endless stream of proposals had poured in for the £20 million a year it had to dispense . |