Example sentences of "[verb] in for [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dunedin House was built by the surgeon J. S. Land in the mid 19th century , and lived in for over 50 years this century by the late Dr Cripps , Medical Officer of Health for the Holderness area . |
| 2 | A further meeting had been pencilled in for today , but ministers emerged after a two-hour meeting with the plans agreed . |
| 3 | Under the aegis of James Prior , the Department of Employment was unlikely to go in for strongly anti-union policies . |
| 4 | 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 ? |
| 5 | And even Rebecca can stay in for about twenty , twenty five minutes . |
| 6 | " We ca n't stay in for ever , Stephen . |
| 7 | They have come in for quite a bit of stick , particularly when they 've been dealing with rape cases . |
| 8 | The company came in for quite a bit of stick with their new version of the Escort and if the Mondeo had not been well received they could have been in real trouble . |
| 9 | Give in for once . |
| 10 | As opposed to going in for just the interviews . |
| 11 | Jahsaxa swept into the tasteful reception room she 'd been keeping Roirbak and Tammuz waiting in for over half an hour . |
| 12 | To fill the vacant position , Sir Henry , still nursing ambitions for the club he had guided and invested in for so long , wanted no one else but the outstandingly successful manager of Huddersfield Town . |
| 13 | thing is I do n't think I can but er I mean I might be able to pop in for about half an hour . |
| 14 | You have n't stayed in for about two months ’ , which is true really . |
| 15 | I have n't stayed in for about two months , about eight weeks , not one night , and he goes , ‘ I think you should stay in at least one ’ , and I goes , ‘ If you think I 'm staying in then you get lost , because I 'm not staying in this flaming house ’ , and he goes , ‘ You 're staying when I tell you to ’ , and I goes , ‘ I wo n't ’ , and I walked out and came back ten minutes later and said , ‘ I 'm going out , all right ? ’ and he goes , ‘ Okay ’ , and he give me some money to go out and come up here [ to the youth club ] . |
| 16 | If Gazza is back in the Lazio team then he has potentially two more fixtures before England 's game against Norway and that provides us with an opportunity to take a look at him in competitive football , something he has not played in for nearly two years . ’ |
| 17 | His piece had clearly been written more in anger than in sorrow , the landlord 's indiscrimination coming in for as much disapprobation as the racist high spirits shown by the Young Conservatives . |
| 18 | Veronica 's father was Lord Somebody-or-other , she reminded herself , and did n't the aristocracy go in for rather grand affairs ? |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Well I do n't go in for about half an hour . |
| 21 | Some branches go in for quite lavish posters , some make do with local draughtsmanship . |
| 22 | I go in for really frumpy underwear . ’ |
| 23 | You messed up their surveillance , you beat up their agents , you went in for exactly the same unauthorised adventurism as they had — and so let them off the hook . |
| 24 | ‘ Thrill ’ was the most frequent motive for attending but ‘ humour ’ was also frequently cited — if the wrestlers went in for too much close holding choruses of ‘ Kiss me sergeant ‘ and ‘ What blue eyes you 've got ’ would strike up . |
| 25 | But i It 's obvious that you 've always y gone in for quite stylish displays of your fruit too have n't you ? |
| 26 | Now I 've done removals before then , not so much now , but I at one time used to be out on the road doing removals myself very often and I would get in for about seven o'clock in the evening get a quick grab something to eat , rush round this place , put the fires on and get it ready . |
| 27 | But , er , so hopefully Michelle will get this next Tracey 's position , and obviously sort of in in the meantime and providing her position comes up they are bringing in a Telesales County Secretary , which was n't gon na come in for about a year cos they wanted to sort of like , trial it , but now they 've decided if that 's what they want the position to do erm it 'll probably happen in the next two months and they said for me to go for it from our division , so I said right , okay . |
| 28 | Given Hoving 's long-standing jealousy of John Walsh , a former curator in the European paintings department who is now the director of the J. Paul Getty Museum , it is surprising that Walsh does not come in for more snide brickbats than a conversation Hoving cites with Getty , where the eccentric billionaire asks him if he would become the director of his museum . |
| 29 | We pay for people to go and live in for ever . |
| 30 | ‘ If anything , containers were left in for too long to start with , though often it works well to leave the containers rinsing while you 're doing something else like working out field rates . ’ |