Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pron] in for " in BNC.

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1 I had this idea they had booked me in for a Caesarean because I 'm small , but had n't told me .
2 What have we let ourselves in for !
3 As Desmond Haynes and Philip Simmons added 99 at better than a run a minute with a volley of boundaries , he must have wondered what he had let himself in for .
4 He knew what he had let himself in for and he was glad .
5 Hutton took a drop in salary to join Durham , and he wondered what he had let himself in for when , after a battering from Franklyn Stephenson , he had to leave the field to be sick .
6 Why should I wish the lad any worse harm than he 's let himself in for already ? ’
7 Thistle 's early season promise has evaporated , and debutant Julian Broddle must be wondering what he 's let himself in for .
8 I could have let you in for it then , could n't I ! ’
9 ‘ You 're really ambivalent about what I 've let you in for , are n't you ? ’
10 LIKELY — Chris Wheatley , Mark , Kevin , Chris , Richard and Keith wonder what they have let themselves in for and , below , they get to grips with crossing a very cold lake .
11 Oh God , what have I let myself in for , I said to myself that night .
12 On walking back home from the church , I found myself thinking very deeply about what I had let myself in for , but foremost what my wife would say , I seem to recall something like ‘ I suppose that 's my lace bobbins even further down the work sheet . ’
13 Cos I 've let myself in for a day of temping .
14 I was ashamed of what I had let myself in for with Jean-Claude .
15 What have I let myself in for here ?
16 What have I let myself in for ?
17 I 've ever done , he said and I 'll be totally honest with you he said if I 'd have known how big it was I would n't have done the operation he said I really did n't know what I 've let myself in for , he said he 's had problems with
18 It 's a hell-raiser with 24-carat cuff-links and rounded vowels , it 's a freshly squeezed orange juice with a large shot of vodka — and like a Mickey Finn , the beauty of the Bentley is that you do n't know quite what you 've let yourself in for .
19 I think you 've probably let us in for it now Frank cos she 's almost certainly going to send us some .
20 I 've put the belt in for when he 's bad and I 've sewn him in for the winter .
21 More than 36,000 Chinese people have turned themselves in for economic crimes during a 10-week grace period that ended last week .
22 J. and I spent that Christmas at our separate homes , but were back on camp for the New Year celebrations , the first new year of peacetime for seven years , and as 1945 drew to a close most of us were beginning to look tentatively ahead to the future when we would no longer be bound by the rules and regulations which had fenced us in for so long , and to wonder where we would all be in another twelve months .
23 Oh I suppose it depends if Norman 's got anybody in for lessons .
24 ‘ You have rather got it in for the doctor , have n't you ? ’ said Henry easily .
25 Seve 's always been convinced the Americans have got it in for him , anyway , but he 's said that about the French , the Italians , the Japanese .
26 So who 's got it in for you ?
27 ‘ She 's got it in for her stepfather , ’ Constance explained to Mick .
28 There was er she said , Blue Peter , and they should have put it in because they 've got it in for the kids .
29 He 'd really got it in for Nigel .
30 ‘ You 're just saying it because you 've got it in for him ! ’
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