Example sentences of "[adv] [pers pn] [verb] in for " in BNC.
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| 1 | So I went in for a scholarship with the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts . |
| 2 | I missed several classes because they put me up in , for instance I , when I came up from the infants to the big school I missed the first standard and they put me into standard two and I went from two , three , four , five , six , seven and seven and I was only eleven , you see , so I did pretty well and then the Headmaster came to my parents and said , why do n't you let her go in for a scholarship to Stowmarket Secondary and so I went in for that and er there was one other girl went as well , there were two of us and erm , and of course we only heard during the summer break and er we passed . |
| 3 | So I put in for that and I got that . |
| 4 | So anyway I put in for this job and and there were people who who ought to have got it before me , er for instance er there was a councillor at er at , Tom , did you know Tom ? |
| 5 | it ai n't very often I go in for something other than chips and not have chips as well you know |
| 6 | Why did n't you go in for that ? |
| 7 | ‘ Are n't you going in for the Swimming Gala ? ’ |
| 8 | Wo n't you come in for a minute ? |
| 9 | Maybe she went in for officers , or maybe , he realized , she already had a boyfriend . |
| 10 | The cloth for their suits was cord ( corduroy ) , as I 've told you ; but sometimes they went in for a suit of heavy tweed — staple tweed it was called ; and at that time they made it as hard as a board . |
| 11 | Sometimes they stand in for a deity , haunting the sacred places and occupying a position midway between gods and men . |
| 12 | So it 's two days out in the field with one of our trainers or top people and then they come in for the three day course . |
| 13 | Then he rushed in for his money , a little too quick off the mark … ’ |
| 14 | Then he went in for er for teaching afterwards . |
| 15 | but that was sold out until the day when I went in for milk |
| 16 | ‘ That 's why I put in for the R.F.C. We 're literally the only sportsmen left . ’ |
| 17 | Or whatever else you went in for . |
| 18 | Instead they went in for archaic exclamations such as ‘ Botheration ! ’ or made up their own : ‘ Slitherkins ! ’ |
| 19 | So that 's probably why they go in for more of these courses things |
| 20 | Well he used to remind of when he went in for tea and erm and you 'd be lucky ! |