Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] in for " in BNC.
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| 1 | But , as the striker moved in for the kill , the defender retrieved the situation with a splendid recovery tackle . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Antrim 's new president collected 220 votes in all as the finances of the Association came in for some healthy but heated discussion . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Hankin added : ‘ If a bid came in for Prudhoe , or any other player , we would consider it . |
| 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 | Hotelier checks in for award |
| 9 | Most fieldwork is simply episodic , made by an outsider moving in for a period to assess observed social behaviour . |
| 10 | The court room at the Old Bailey was hushed dock went in for the jury to return for their verdict . |
| 11 | Back in the good old days , you could manage your practice with nothing more complicated or technologically advanced than a pen , paper and adding machine , with a manual typewriter thrown in for the real forward thinkers . |
| 12 | Would you and Karen mind standing in for me for a while ? ’ |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Your gear comes in for some heavy duty usage . |
| 16 | Then a scholarship to university came in for Sheila . |
| 17 | Not surprisingly the concept of dominant ideology came in for some discussion . |
| 18 | The Sinclair Spectrum came in for particular criticism . |
| 19 | This meant that the married women left at home came in for a large share of the work about the croft . |
| 20 | How to get the plan called in for consideration at a public inquiry , since there is every likelihood Dyfed County Council and possibly CCW would be prepared to negotiate a compromise , based on past performance . |
| 21 | The latest is he 's improving the prisons , and ’ — her head went back now and she laughed — ‘ he 's wanting a law brought in for heavy sentences for incest . |
| 22 | Maybe if I was on Sandøya when winter came , when the sun went in for two or three months , when all the water froze , when ice covered the ground and fishing was a risky business of frozen fingers and ears , on water in which survival was measured in seconds , I would be less romantic about it . |
| 23 | He offers everyone a serious comparison of Keaton and Charlie Chaplin ( with Harold Lloyd and Fatty Arbuckle trivia thrown in for good measure ) , revealing that Keaton was , for him , the true genius on account of his invention and comic daring . |
| 24 | Although in nature the feeding pattern of Etroplus suratensis is markedly herbivorous , in captivity the pattern is omnivorous , greedily devouring all of the usual cichlid foods ie. beef-heart , mussel , bloodworm , shrimp and pond pellets with the occasional lettuce thrown in for additional roughage . |
| 25 | A fox on the run , seconds before the leading hound moves in for the kill . |
| 26 | Like a David Goodis noir novel reset in Deptford with an extraneous espionage plot thrown in for good measure |
| 27 | ‘ They 've got a central exchange somewhere up north and they put you on hold till the local mob come in for their tea . ’ |
| 28 | As the snake closes in for the kill , its mouth sensors guide it with deadly accuracy . |
| 29 | ‘ Greed came in for the first time . |
| 30 | 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 . |