Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] in for " in BNC.
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| 1 | He could remember what a flurry Martha Pritchett used to get into when Lady Debrace stopped in for a cup of tea , and how afterwards she would tell them proudly how her ladyship had sat down and chatted as if she were no grander than Nurse Wilks ! |
| 2 | Rex moved in for a cuddle . |
| 3 | When agricultural improvers visited Sussex in the war years they had little favourable to say about the situation in general and the Weald came in for wholesale condemnation , although there was some disagreement about the details . |
| 4 | Ken came in for coffee . |
| 5 | But John Devereux raced in for two tries to keep Widnes in the game before O'Neill scampered through score the winner . |
| 6 | Jahsaxa swept into the tasteful reception room she 'd been keeping Roirbak and Tammuz waiting in for over half an hour . |
| 7 | In the 68th minute the huge Musselburgh contingent in the crowd went wild when McMillan broke up the blindside and sent winger Craig Ramsey racing in for a try to put his side 14-10 up . |
| 8 | That was the sort of thing I could imagine Denny and Kay going in for , at least in theory . |
| 9 | For instance , I have today recorded a radio interview in Welsh stressing the need to have an application for quarrying on the Carmel Woods SSSI called in for a public inquiry . |
| 10 | And they reiterated that they would like Becky to stay in for tests but Jenny could come home , and Becky was a bit jaundiced you see . |
| 11 | RECENTLY RICHARD APPEARED IN For Women magazine , with a head of hair but without clothes . |
| 12 | Not that it 'd need to — Grandmaster Chess might be showing its age a bit , but if you can put up with its idiosyncrasies it 's a bargain at £1.99 , especially with Renaissance Othello thrown in for good measure . |
| 13 | Gerry Byrom and Mathew Doggert come in for Richard Scanlon and John Pierce . |
| 14 | ‘ Sarah came in for you . ’ |
| 15 | When Marcus came in for supper , two hours later , Daniel 's Mum was still talking , to Stephanie , who was in and out of the kitchen dishing up vegetables and making gravy , to her son , who moved his weight cautiously from time to time on a dining-room chair and frowned and frowned . |
| 16 | Kravchenko came in for fierce criticism at the seventh congress of the USSR Journalists ' Union held on Feb. 5-7 , over the return of political censorship of state television , as witnessed recently in the withdrawal of the Vzglyad documentary series and the return by the flagship news programme Vremya to official propaganda and exhortation . |
| 17 | ‘ Then Orient came in for me and I could not have been happier with the way things worked out . ’ |
| 18 | It can be said of these strong-minded and independently gifted accomplices that their work shows a dimension of reciprocity and replication , of the production unit , which stands at an appreciable remove from parody and plagiarism , and from the mimicry of other people 's voices which is comprehended in the term ‘ ventriloquism ’ , which Amis goes in for in private , among friends , and which is also a pleasure of the novels he writes . |
| 19 | The route has now taken a bit of hammering with a Yugoslav bagging the third ascent and Sean Myles and Andy Pollitt steaming in for the fourth and fifth ascents soon afterwards . |
| 20 | ‘ When Blackburn came in for me , they were well down the old Second Division , but I jumped at the chance . |
| 21 | Of the other leading contenders for honours , Instonians have boosted their squad with the return of Davy Wilson from the French League , where he figured for Amiens , while Irish U-18 Andrew McBride is back at Annadale slotting in for Vincent Devenney ( working in the US ) . |
| 22 | Of the other leading contenders for honours , Instonians have boosted their squad with the return of Davy Wilson from the French League , where he figured for Amiens , while Irish U-18 Andrew McBride is back at Annadale slotting in for Vincent Devenney ( working in the US ) . |
| 23 | Shane Warne , whose solitary wicket of the series had cost him 228 runs , was rested , while Tom Moody came in for the out-of-form Mark Waugh . |
| 24 | The IDA came in for attack the following day from residents ' associations in both Currabinny and Ringaskiddy . |
| 25 | Secondly , the championship itself was especially rich in first-class drivers : Ferrari , his chief rivals , had Niki Lauda and Clay Regazzoni as its main drivers ( with Reutemann filling in for the grievously injured Lauda at Monza ) , and Lauda , far more than Hunt , was at the very peak of his form , the peak of Lauda 's form being , together with Alain Prost 's , the summit of racing artistry . |
| 26 | One day when Mr Seeders came in for his meal , he drank too much beer . |
| 27 | That was when Frank Gray came in for me . |
| 28 | The team was unchanged from Soton , except for Fairclough coming in for Newsome ( to counter Flo 's aerial threat ? ) |
| 29 | No fool , Berenson went in for finding ‘ Isabellas ’ ; Mrs Gardner fancied herself as America 's answer to Isabella d'Este , the great Renaissance art collector . |
| 30 | The Spartans offence then fumbled the ball and seconds later running back Eric Okatu went in for the Tornadoes ' second T.D . |