Example sentences of "[verb] in for [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The heavy Roman-emperor head with thinnish iron-grey hair brushed forward , the nose , broad and fleshy , and the mouth fallen in for lack of teeth , was not a comely picture . |
| 2 | Election ‘ 92 : Thatcher flies in for count |
| 3 | C is also a difficult language unless you are planning to use it full time and certainly not something to indulge in for fun . |
| 4 | For the exasperated livestock farmer , with fears for the future of his pig unit or broiler house , for the fruit-grower alarmed by the possibility of a poisonous spray inadvertently finding its way into the metabolism of a casual passerby , and for the cereals farmer who does not take kindly to his best malting barley being trampled down in order to create an impromptu picnic site , the simplest solution is to go in for siege tactics . |
| 5 | On annual leave the rest right this wants to go in for quarter of an hour does n't it ? |
| 6 | The f the thing is if he needs to go in for treatment , he 's only going to get worse if he does n't get it . |
| 7 | Refusing the invitation to go in for coffee , Fran hurried back to the car and drove across town , only slowing when she turned in through the gates of the college and made her way along the rutted gravel path to pull up in front of the old sandstone building next to Luke 's car . |
| 8 | You ought to go in for beauty comps , he said when he was winding up his film . |
| 9 | What I mean by that is , when you get back to your branches , you will go onto further training programmes in branch training , developing your practice training , so each branch will vary how they sort of co-ordinate this , but let's say , we 've been in a few months now , and twice a week we 've got to go in for training . |
| 10 | Of every hundred pounds that 's invested , round about forty pounds goes straight to the government in betting duty , round about thirty pounds goes to the football pools in expenses , commissions and profits , leaving round about thirty pounds to be returned in prizes , and so you can see that your rate of return on football pools is extremely small , but on the other hand a very large number of people do enter the football pools , and when they win they can win considerable sums of money and it can make absolute rational economic sense to go in for football pools because you are giving yourself a chance , no matter how small , of winning a sum of money that you would n't expect to come across in any other way of your life . |
| 11 | ‘ Could n't I see her , before she goes in for surgery ? ’ |
| 12 | You 're the one , I would say , who goes in for aggression . ’ |
| 13 | A man who goes in for abduction does n't merit explanations , and neither , ’ she went on , warming to her subject , ‘ does anyone who can purloin other people 's property , quite deliberately and without conscience , have any right to spout morals at me . ’ |
| 14 | The sooner that idea is introduced universally , the sooner individuals will have the right to a credit which they can cash in for training and further education , and we should be talking of both — of further education colleges and training schemes . |
| 15 | Mr Gonzalez has also come in for criticism from within his own party . |
| 16 | Mr Gonzalez has also come in for criticism from within his own party . |
| 17 | The UAE , one of the states indicted by Iraq in 1990 , had previously come in for criticism without any members finding it necessary to resort to violence to obtain redress . |
| 18 | The Court of Appeal has struggled to reconcile the two decisions but has come in for criticism . |
| 19 | She 's established herself as a writer with award winning novels including ’ I 'm the King of the Castle ’ and ’ Woman in Black ’ but Mrs de Winter has come in for criticism . |
| 20 | The force has come in for criticism in the past two months after figures released on the constabulary 's ‘ crime-free day ’ in April showed Cheshire had suffered the highest rise in crime in the country . |
| 21 | The police have also come in for critisism — for not providing enough officers . |
| 22 | So , if some italian club comes in for Macca at say 4M ( a definate possibility ) , and/or someone come in for Speed at say 3.5M , well have no fucking team left . |
| 23 | So , if some italian club comes in for Macca at say 4M ( a definate possibility ) , and/or someone come in for Speed at say 3.5M , well have no fucking team left . |
| 24 | No I 've come in for physio actually . |
| 25 | Defence policy , too , has come in for complaint . |
| 26 | It 's a fact of life that if you 're in any way well known , then you 're going to come in for criticism . |
| 27 | And this Mr he was , he used to c he well he was collec calling f with Mr and he kept calling with me the same so I used to order my bulk in October to come in for Christmas goods . |
| 28 | And those 16 are all booked in for treatment during April , most this week . |
| 29 | Storry stands in for Mantle |
| 30 | In 1926 would be the General Strike when Welsh miners marched the two hundred miles to London , their trail easy to follow by the black-blood spat along the road , while back at home the troops moved in for fear of revolution . |