Example sentences of "[vb infin] in for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hopefully this time the bolts will stay in for good , as chopping and replacing them ( something which now seems an annual event ) is causing untold damage to this superb pitch . |
| 2 | It 's not actually automatic because you can stay in for those extra up up to five years if you so choose . |
| 3 | And we 'll sort out last week 's postal competition so do n't ring in for this one and the question was , What 's this got to do with a company ? |
| 4 | The whole world would tune in for this one . |
| 5 | I was right on both counts , but it did not really sink in for some time that I had joined a charity . |
| 6 | Having learned to hold the camcorder still for these static scenes , and having resisted all temptations to pan the camcorder to and fro to ‘ get it all in ’ you can now move in for some closer shots . |
| 7 | ‘ And she did n't go in for violent amateur dramatics with a bunch of friends ? ’ |
| 8 | ‘ We are not a national daily ; we do not go in for moral crusades . ’ |
| 9 | I do n't think there 's a very great deal in the way of er lighting fittings one can talk about erm in houses in Harlow , it 's er , there 's a , a distinct difference between the light , a lot , lot of architects in , in Harlow have lived in Harlow you see and they will go in for all the very latest type of lighting fittings erm and because they have er access to the books for the various er designers of lighting fittings er , generally though , they , the majority of the people in the town er have come from er London boroughs and erm they view the same kind of lighting fittings they 've always been used to . |
| 10 | But the non-conformists did n't go in for much decoration . |
| 11 | ‘ I do n't go in for other stuff , ’ he said . |
| 12 | But the troops will only go in for humanitarian reasons including the protection of supplies . |
| 13 | I do n't go in for serious boyfriends . |
| 14 | Anyway , I do n't go in for sharp manoeuvres much myself . |
| 15 | ‘ We should go in for wholesale demolition of buildings from the Sixties and Seventies . |
| 16 | I 've only known you a few days , Luke , and I do n't go in for casual sex . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ It 's just that I do n't go in for casual encounters . ’ |
| 18 | I wonder more people do n't go in for that sort of thing . |
| 19 | ‘ Stop fussing , ’ said Joe , ‘ I do n't go in for that sort of thing . |
| 20 | My family did n't go in for that sort of thing . |
| 21 | erm , and er , sometimes even pleased to say well I 'll try to get you in purple , but er , nowadays erm , we , we do n't go in for that because there 's , there 's so many er shops now that selling lighting fittings erm and selling nothing else , there is n't one actually in Harlow , but there 's one in Epping and there 's one in Stortford , erm that er , it 's , it 's riding a new car people want to see er a good variety of them , have a look at a lot or a washing machine or anything like that , you want to see many before you buy one . |
| 22 | Why did n't you go in for that ? |
| 23 | Oh I do n't think I shall go in for that . |
| 24 | ‘ But we do n't go in for top models , ’ she said . |
| 25 | You will go in for these educational |
| 26 | Though Locke did go in for some experimental work , his main contribution to the ethos of the Society was to do what Bacon had quite failed to do . |
| 27 | Maybe the Sergeant Major would go in for some Greek dancing , and smash all the house DJ 's records instead of plates . |
| 28 | Though he kept a folder packed with suggestions for new volumes , he was keen to emphasise their serious didactic nature : ‘ We do n't go in for quick quack books . ’ |
| 29 | I think we should go in for 10,000 of these ones … " |
| 30 | They are n't moody ; they do n't go in for sexual harassment |