Example sentences of "[noun] came in for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Antrim 's new president collected 220 votes in all as the finances of the Association came in for some healthy but heated discussion . |
| 2 | When agricultural improvers visited Sussex in the war years they had little favourable to say about the situation in general and the Weald came in for wholesale condemnation , although there was some disagreement about the details . |
| 3 | Greville Starkey 's riding of the horse came in for fierce criticism , but he made no mistake in Dancing Brave 's next race , drawing right away from Triptych to win the Coral-Eclipse Stakes at Sandown Park . |
| 4 | Hankin added : ‘ If a bid came in for Prudhoe , or any other player , we would consider it . |
| 5 | Ken came in for coffee . |
| 6 | ‘ He always said he would n't stand in my way if a bigger club came in for me . |
| 7 | — STRESSHOLME Golf Club came in for high praise yesterday after staging the Mizuno Tournament a major event for assistant professionals . |
| 8 | ‘ Sarah came in for you . ’ |
| 9 | Then a scholarship to university came in for Sheila . |
| 10 | When Marcus came in for supper , two hours later , Daniel 's Mum was still talking , to Stephanie , who was in and out of the kitchen dishing up vegetables and making gravy , to her son , who moved his weight cautiously from time to time on a dining-room chair and frowned and frowned . |
| 11 | Also the ghost stories of certain houses came in for comment and there is a long note on the haunting of Calgarth Hall . |
| 12 | Not surprisingly the concept of dominant ideology came in for some discussion . |
| 13 | Kravchenko came in for fierce criticism at the seventh congress of the USSR Journalists ' Union held on Feb. 5-7 , over the return of political censorship of state television , as witnessed recently in the withdrawal of the Vzglyad documentary series and the return by the flagship news programme Vremya to official propaganda and exhortation . |
| 14 | ‘ Then Orient came in for me and I could not have been happier with the way things worked out . ’ |
| 15 | The Sinclair Spectrum came in for particular criticism . |
| 16 | ‘ When Blackburn came in for me , they were well down the old Second Division , but I jumped at the chance . |
| 17 | This meant that the married women left at home came in for a large share of the work about the croft . |
| 18 | Shane Warne , whose solitary wicket of the series had cost him 228 runs , was rested , while Tom Moody came in for the out-of-form Mark Waugh . |
| 19 | The intensified aerial bombardment and resulting civilian casualties came in for strong criticism , with all the opposition groups in parliament ( hitherto supportive of military action against the LTTE ) subscribing to a statement which described it as an inhuman action against the people . |
| 20 | But the attitude of women content to stay in their middle-level comfort zones came in for a lot too — not only from a male chief executive who had seen one of his recruits retreat from the fast track , but from senior female executives as well who felt women ‘ should take their share of responsibility for low applications for senior jobs . ’ |
| 21 | The IDA came in for attack the following day from residents ' associations in both Currabinny and Ringaskiddy . |
| 22 | One day when Mr Seeders came in for his meal , he drank too much beer . |
| 23 | That was when Frank Gray came in for me . |
| 24 | Lloyds , Midland and NatWest came in for most criticism overall , while Abbey National , the Co-op Bank , FirstDirect , the Royal Bank of Scotland and the Yorkshire Bank came out best . |
| 25 | Lloyds , Midland and NatWest came in for most criticism overall , while Abbey National , the Co-op Bank , FirstDirect , the Royal Bank of Scotland and the Yorkshire Bank came out best for overall satisfaction . |
| 26 | ‘ Greed came in for the first time . |
| 27 | All kinds of difficult questions began to be asked and in the early heady days of the women 's movement the body came in for close scrutiny . |
| 28 | When the programme 's ratings dipped immediately after the November revamp , Focus came in for the heaviest criticism . |
| 29 | The Ulster Unionists came in for particular criticism , being accused of sacrificing the province 's interests in Europe for the prospect of holding the balance of power at Westminster . |
| 30 | There is nothing very new about it all Alf Ramsey was hounded out despite winning the World Cup , while Don Revie , Ron Greenwood and Bobby Robson came in for vilification but things do seem to be getting worse . |