Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv prt] for [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She might as well cut her losses and take off for Phobos or Longevity , see if there was anything there , see if there was anyone that had n't flown down for carnival . |
| 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 | Mr Gonzalez has also come in for criticism from within his own party . |
| 4 | Mr Gonzalez has also come in for criticism from within his own party . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The Court of Appeal has struggled to reconcile the two decisions but has come in for criticism . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The police have also come in for critisism — for not providing enough officers . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | No I 've come in for physio actually . |
| 13 | Defence policy , too , has come in for complaint . |
| 14 | And those 16 are all booked in for treatment during April , most this week . |
| 15 | Poles have sat down for efficiency . |
| 16 | She walked up the stone stairs to the sound of the scratchy long-playing record , highlights from Turandot , which she had put on as they had sat down for dinner . |
| 17 | She watched him go , realizing it was weeks since they had sat down for dinner together without an interruption , and over a week since they had made love . |
| 18 | The whole apparatus is collapsed down for introduction into and removal from the gall bladder via a 12 French introducer sheath . |
| 19 | Under the high side there was a grey Buick that I had seen Harvey driving and a long black Lincoln Continental that looked like the President of the United States had come over for pizza and beer . |
| 20 | And they must of come over for Christmas dinner . |
| 21 | The length of the cable then rests on the staples and can always be lifted off for painting and cleaning . |
| 22 | ‘ Anyway , ’ I said , ‘ I took off my boots and jacket and left them up here and I dropped into the water , because Harry had n't come up for air , like I told you . ’ |
| 23 | It felt fragile at first , but it was as if I had finally come up for air after nearly drowning in a pool of lies . |
| 24 | ONE of Norfolk 's oldest houses , a twelfth-century converted priory at Horsham St Faith , five miles outside Norwich , has come up for sale through the Prudential ( 0603 761600 ) for £350,000 The house 's rarity is reflected in its Grade I listed status . |
| 25 | On 9 February 1922 a letter of complaint to the press from postmen headed ‘ The uncommunicative Commissariat ’ stated that the Moscow post office , with 4,000 employees , was frozen up for lack of snow-cleaners . |
| 26 | But when a stranger was picked up for house breaking or shop breaking or something , a complete stranger , we used to send them to Norwich pending further enquiries , and with a request that they be fingerprinted , and of course they used to fingerprint , send to Scotland Yard , we used to then get the record if they had a record with a photograph , and all their previous convictions . |
| 27 | Bob Roberts was picked up for distribution by a major only after it was successfully screened in Cannes . |
| 28 | When I wrote my novel Hitler Needs You ( we were the people Hitler needed most ) it was picked up for review by Elizabeth Thomas , literary editor of Tribune , as being the one book for her which showed what England was really like in the thirties . |
| 29 | But they may be booked up for Christmas day . |
| 30 | Clare Wildish has come back for help feeding her second baby , 3 day old Emma . |