Example sentences of "[pron] came in for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I came in for a lot of criticism but I know in my heart that the good things I did there were very conveniently swept under the carpet at the time . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ I came in for a lot of adulation during my racing days — groupies . |
| 3 | Thus Jasper 's father might have been the man who was painting the flats and who came in for a cup of tea , or the old lover whom she happened to run into in Denmark Hill , or the neighbour who was moving out of Flat 16 and who came up to say goodbye while his girlfriend was packing their furniture into the rented van . |
| 4 | After four weeks every group had interviewed four of the original subjects , plus others who came in for a single session , and they had all accumulated a great amount of material . |
| 5 | In 1980 we changed to a system of community and private nurses who came in for an hour or two in the morning and evening . |
| 6 | When she came in for the second time her throat was like looking at a plate full of strawberries and cream — red enlarged tonsils with a coating of puss . |
| 7 | He came in for a chat the other day and said , oh how you getting on ? |
| 8 | When he came in for the night some hours later he was still agitated and fretting . |
| 9 | The problems do n't end there ; Kingsley Black had one of his best games for Northern Ireland in Tirana , when he came in for the injured Michael Hughes . |