Example sentences of "[verb] in for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was really a good play , ha , and it was done so well , and you were so close to it as well , you got in for two pounds , best thing I 've ever seen . |
| 2 | It is the house that your father lived in for fifteen years . |
| 3 | When the band is removed from the machine there will be two ends of yarn to sew in for each buttonhole . |
| 4 | About £8 billion , including debenture repayments , is pencilled in for 1992–93 , largely from outstanding payments on already privatised assets . |
| 5 | One thing is clear none of this OO stuff is imminent in Oracle as SQL 3 is pencilled in for 1995/6 and an object storage manager will most likely follow that . |
| 6 | I voted for this government because they said they were n't going to go in for that sort of rubbish . |
| 7 | So I , I mean , I 've got to go in for that . |
| 8 | It was typical of Benjamin James , as it happens , to go in for such a touch of harmless sycophancy to please his friend the vicar ; he had very soon become , as we might have guessed , a respectable pillar of the Curry Rivel establishment . |
| 9 | At home he decided to go in for wholesale enclosures , encouraged his tenants to take long leases by reducing their rents , and instructed them in modern scientific methods . |
| 10 | Yes , Americans , erm I have the impression , they 're being rather slow to go in for this sort of Federal legislation . |
| 11 | In that way , we would increase national expenditure on training and the Secretary of State would not have to go in for these dictatorial measures . |
| 12 | New York drug dealers seem to go in for sophisticated marketing ploys . |
| 13 | ‘ The bright child who might possibly get nine GCSEs is going to be pushed to go in for more and more . |
| 14 | Was there ever a time when you had to go in for more drastic measures ? |
| 15 | There was a mini-rebellion about that just after the Police Strike and then they allowed policemen to go in for half an hour 's and eat breakfast . |
| 16 | Edwina , the worldly mother-in-law who goes in for interior decoration . |
| 17 | Corinthian Geometric goes in for small vessels of very high technical quality , simply and elegantly decorated . |
| 18 | In the afternoon , one or both of us goes in for extra teaching , discussions , etc. in the afternoon , and then we eat dinner at 6 . |
| 19 | But if the Section Sergeant goes in for any necessary purpose , the Inspector comes in , he is reported and gets a severe reprimand from his superiors for idling his time in the Station . |
| 20 | He also goes in for creative self-plundering by way of rhetorical and dialectical self-parody . |
| 21 | Hopefully this time the bolts will stay in for good , as chopping and replacing them ( something which now seems an annual event ) is causing untold damage to this superb pitch . |
| 22 | It 's not actually automatic because you can stay in for those extra up up to five years if you so choose . |
| 23 | Only one copy of Section 1 needs to be filled in , but ideally separate copies of Sections 2 , 3 and 4 should be filled in for each course taught in the appropriate field . |
| 24 | An' she drops in for another little drop , |
| 25 | But that policy has come in for sharp criticism from monetarists who insist that it has fed the rapid expansion of broad money supply , M4 , and inflamed inflationary pressures . |
| 26 | It is on the detail of the recommendations that Cadbury has come in for strong criticism — in particular , over some of the recommendations in the code ( see also this issue , p 24 ) . |
| 27 | Christianity especially has come in for great criticism as being the major religion in the history of Western civilization . |
| 28 | Inspection has come in for much discussion today as a major part of the Bill . |
| 29 | The Forestry Commission has declared its intention to expand forestry , particularly of the broadleaved variety , at " down the hill " locations — a move away from recent tendencies to afforest uplands with conifer plantations , which have come in for extensive criticism [ see section on Pollution : Air in this issue ] . |
| 30 | He 's , he 's already come in for one form put it , he 's obviously filled one form in , he came up and he said can I have an application form for that job in the window , so I gave him one and he went , oh well I 've just filled one in . |