Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] in for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yeah I only put in for three thousand , he got me a nine . |
| 2 | Cos we only go in for one drink to cel , celebrate Penny 's birthday with her . |
| 3 | But the troops will only go in for humanitarian reasons including the protection of supplies . |
| 4 | Sorry , I run a health spa in Scotland and I see an awful lot of women who obviously come in for some slight improvement but quite frankly it is the stress factor that shows in the face that does n't make them quite so beautiful because their personalities comes across for when their stressed it shows in their face and I notice when they leave only after a few days the stress has gone and their personality shines through and their far more beautiful . |
| 5 | There was always a long wait for an appointment , sometimes up to a month , and women were only kept in for 24 hours if it was a normal birth . |
| 6 | They 've just come in for ninety three . |
| 7 | He 's , he 's already come in for one form put it , he 's obviously filled one form in , he came up and he said can I have an application form for that job in the window , so I gave him one and he went , oh well I 've just filled one in . |
| 8 | " I reckon you 're very wise not going in for this lark , " Joanne said , shifting the mound of her body uncomfortably under the bedclothes . |
| 9 | He 's not going in for any pretending over a baby unless he comes in for a share of the cash , bloody ridiculous it is . |
| 10 | ‘ I do n't normally go in for public displays of affection , ’ he murmured , ‘ but you 're irresistible . |
| 11 | ‘ I do n't normally go in for public displays of affection either , ’ she murmured impulsively , forgetting her uneasiness , ‘ but even with sand on your face you 're … ’ |
| 12 | ‘ We are not a national daily ; we do not go in for moral crusades . ’ |
| 13 | Parker did not go in for German beer . |
| 14 | Rory would be nothing more to him than a pleasant extra thrown in for good measure . |
| 15 | Almost two thirds of the £6.75 billion worth of tax increases already pencilled in for 1994-95 will fall on personal incomes , only a third will be fall on spending . |
| 16 | They always came in for more than a little if they had offended him in the past . |
| 17 | Occasionally linen , holland or cerecloth would have been specially bought in for this purpose rather than sacrificing a useful item of domestic furnishing in an age when linen of any appreciable width was a luxury and worthy of bequest ( 'There are 4 very fine smocks in your father 's little linen trunk and one of my four breadth Holland sheets for your own girl Peg … and I desire your father that he will not let any of my household linen be sold , but that it may go to you and your eldest son and I hope to his son too , only some of my broderies of my own making give to your sister . ' ) . |
| 18 | ‘ And yet he wore a collar and tie , ’ put in Kathleen , tipping Madeira cake crumbs deftly from her plate into the little blue tin always brought in for that purpose with the tea trolley . |
| 19 | The arts community has always gone in for manic attention-seeking , of course — the oxygen of publicity ( to borrow a phrase ) being crucial to its survival . |
| 20 | We do within P Way Design , which is probably the best office I 've ever worked in for that . |
| 21 | He also goes in for creative self-plundering by way of rhetorical and dialectical self-parody . |
| 22 | But Labour Party councillors also came in for some criticism from delegates . |
| 23 | Incidentally , it does n't include the disposal of Smithmark We 've also er we 've also gone in for other cost reduction exercises , for instance at er Dalton with a review of warehousing and distribution er , we should save about a million pounds in a full year and we 've been ramming home to our chief executives the need for annual payroll reviews to be geared to the profitability of the company rather than t rather than to the rate of inflation er , or even , er in , even the market place . |
| 24 | It can also come in for gastric complaints following intensely hot weather . |
| 25 | The Victorians also come in for considerable attention , some of it with a feminist slant , while , not surprisingly perhaps , Latin America still seems to be chic . |
| 26 | The contrasts between the synoptic gospels ( Matthew , Mark and Luke ) and the fourth gospel , between the various letters ascribed to Paul , and between Paul 's theology and that of other leaders in the primitive church , all now came in for serious consideration . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | I was right on both counts , but it did not really sink in for some time that I had joined a charity . |
| 29 | 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 ? |
| 30 | ‘ And she did n't go in for violent amateur dramatics with a bunch of friends ? ’ |