Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] in for " in BNC.

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1 You ought to go in for beauty comps , he said when he was winding up his film .
2 Do you think there 's enough of it in the educational profession , or do you think that one ought to go in for much more evaluation ?
3 if I won bigger money , I should go in for a new house , which would be built to our own idea , so that we could get a bigger scullery … .
4 If so , perhaps you should go in for it .
5 I think we should go in for 10,000 of these ones … "
6 ‘ We should go in for wholesale demolition of buildings from the Sixties and Seventies .
7 " I must go in for my lesson now , " she said .
8 So for a change I thought someone should write in for the fans .
9 if we lose out the argument that we should put in for some increase next year , and and we think it 's going to be very difficult to sustain an argument ,
10 Throughout the present chapter , and indeed elsewhere in this report , we have intimated that policies too must come in for scrutiny .
11 Says yeah alright I says we 'll call in for an hour .
12 He 'll go in for about four months , they 'll give him shock treatment and all that , but as soon as he comes out he starts drinking again .
13 So then I decided I would like to be that I knew there was a job going on the electricians , so I thought well I 'll I 'll go in for the electrical side .
14 He 'll go in for his maths , wo n't study , go in for his maths and get an A.
15 Do you think I might come in for a few minutes and talk to you about Matilda ? ’
16 ‘ If the murder rate speeds up , ’ said Milton , ‘ perhaps you might put in for the job yourself . ’
17 Well they 'll put in for a transfer .
18 I 'll come in the morning instead or whatever , erm but quite often it means if they 're coming in they say , well I 'll be in town anyway I 'll come in for that hour
19 ‘ You 'll come in for a moment , wo n't you ? ’
20 And then after oh , after a few weeks she said I 'll come in for a cup of tea .
21 Said oh that 's alright , we 've got some friends coming down this weekend , we 'll come in for a bar snack .
22 And I thought well , even if it was a voucher for pads or owt , I mean , they 'll come in for either Lianne
23 Probably what the best thing to do is for for for managers to sit when Vicky comes back I 'll fill in for anyone who reports to me .
24 He had thought that he might slip in for a quick snack that would keep body and soul together before he went back to his room to brood about the situation that he had handled so badly .
25 Oh yes , I can see what you 've done , I tried to ring you and it said erm out of order , cos I was ringing to say I 'm coming to the bank this morning so I 'll pop in for coffee .
26 She says yeah she says I 'll pop in for a quick cuppa .
27 She told me she did n't eat lunch any more as it had become a bourgeois meal , but I could call in for a cup of de-caff and con her into whatever it was I wanted .
28 ‘ I suppose I could go in for advertising . ’
29 You know the thing you went in for , , you said I could go in for recording ?
30 So he asked me if I 'd go in for a couple of weeks until he got something sorted out you know .
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