Example sentences of "[verb] in [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | A bumpy ride : Major flies in to fight for a key marginal . |
| 2 | Does my right hon. Friend accept that if the major galleries of this country are to go on with their extremely enlightened and successful purchasing programme , it is essential that we bring in charging for entry ? |
| 3 | Dilip Vengsarkar came in looking for his fourth hundred in as many Lord 's appearances and immediately joined Shastri in exploiting the unpatrolled third-man boundary . |
| 4 | ‘ Is that right the filth came in looking for your Mickey and the electric went ? |
| 5 | Then , right after he and Mr. Mendez left , a mustered-out soldier from Thomas came in looking for passage to Bisbee . |
| 6 | Sure Ji he came in looking for Jim one morning and Jim was n't there , says he 's in bed so listen I said do you wan na go up and waken him like fuck Jim says when Acky woke me I said what you mean he give you a kiss and he woke you up . |
| 7 | ‘ The story goes , ’ I told him , as we drove up to Llanberis after meeting at Bangor station , ‘ that you were in the Radziel and a woman came in collecting for charity . |
| 8 | Stephen came in to change for dinner , thoughtful and brooding . |
| 9 | When a pupil came in asking for a special book , he would rush and find it before Mr Crangle . |
| 10 | If your candidate is going to research the level of pollution in a local river , he does n't stand on the bridge and look ; he either wades in to feel for junk or he goes in with a professional diver to find it . |
| 11 | And Mum and Dad are going off on holiday on Saturday , so they wo n't be popping in to visit for a couple of weeks . ’ |
| 12 | The area was sealed off , sniffer dogs were called in to search for more explosives and the bags taken to the Metropolitan Police forensic science laboratory for examination . |
| 13 | A police helicopter has been called in to search for an armed robber who 's raided five petrol stations in three weeks . |
| 14 | MI6 , Scotland Yard and the FBI had been called in to hunt for the shadowy Surrey-born spy . |
| 15 | Someone was always dragged in to delegate for her if the outside world called . |
| 16 | It does n't have enough money coming in to pay for it . |
| 17 | When western doctors went in to look for thyroid and other illnesses , they could not tell whether the apparent increase they discovered in these things was due to radiation or to the fact that no one had done such a thorough diagnosis before . |
| 18 | ‘ I went in to look for adventure , but I found love , ’ Dorian told Lord Henry . |
| 19 | Went in to look for the seeds so I m I might have changed , just gone , I du n no . |
| 20 | Paul and Nasey went in to work for you , so they got a wage from the start . ’ |
| 21 | So what we 're , he 's gone in asked for something . |
| 22 | He had gone in to look for adventure , but had found love , he told Lord Henry . |
| 23 | Plant breeders anywhere in the world can write in to ask for budwood from these clones , some of which are wild in origin while others have been selected from plantations in various countries . |
| 24 | Now I 'm not I 'm asking is whether its shareholders could write in to apply for a concessionary ticket to Alton Towers and get a reduced price if they so wish . |
| 25 | Drama series include Routes , a twice-weekly show about battling transport families , airline security thrills in Cleared For Takeoff and Head Over Heels with Jackie Morrison and Ian Embleton ( left ) . |
| 26 | They all come in to look for it . |
| 27 | When I am sitting up there working with the librarian , pupils will come trotting in with little notes from teachers saying " I have been sent in to ask for books on … " and off they will go for that lesson which is what she wanted , so they have achieved it . |
| 28 | The sacrifice comes in dying for that valued person or thing . |