Example sentences of "[verb] in for the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Is n't the phrase just meaningless , flung in for the rhythm , meaning no more than ‘ by pillar or by post ’ , ‘ by night or by day ’ , ‘ by hook or by crook ’ ? |
| 2 | The star of the festival is Hans Rey … a stunt rider who can do anything and everything with a mountain bike … he 's been flown in for the classic … |
| 3 | The star of the festival is Hans Rey … a stunt rider who can do anything and everything with a mountain bike … he 's been flown in for the classic … |
| 4 | But William 's grandad was too busy working to notice or care , riding shotgun to a great clattering brute of a knitting machine that reminded him of the Irish cobs he 'd broken in for the brewery ; he could knit thirty fully fashioned stockings an hour , sixteen hours a day . |
| 5 | Our jolly attendant makes one more and final round , checking that we are all tucked in for the night . |
| 6 | And it 's being pencilled in for the weekend after Wigan are due to defend their world sevens title in Sydney on February 5-7 . |
| 7 | Although they have been pencilled in for the Cymru Alliance next season , Llani have faint hopes of winning a reprieve if a present club pulls out of the Konica League . |
| 8 | He was hustled away by some of the extra police officers drafted in for the case . |
| 9 | There are no hotel bills , they chip in for the petrol and food and everybody 's happy . ’ |
| 10 | Collecting her ticket , she came up behind him again as he checked in for the flight . |
| 11 | The National Lottery will be the enemy of proper planning in all areas ; it will encourage short-term thinking , and it will be the perfect excuse for the Treasury to go in for the kind of sleight-of-hand just described . |
| 12 | I mean given that you 've got a , oh I do n't know , a pound you 're going to spend a week in gambling entertainment , if I could put it that way , you 'd do better to go in for the pools , because if you did have a win you might have a big one , than to put it on a horse — am I right ? |
| 13 | Like a car needs to go in for the M O T , you 've got ta |
| 14 | Her mother goes in for the bingo . |
| 15 | So all the excavations are filled in for the sake of tidiness , and all the bolt-holes and entrance holes are filled in to help assess what 's been left . |
| 16 | It was around this time that he went to collect his Mercedes from a car showroom and found himself being gathered in for the Lord . |
| 17 | She sat at the table and painstakingly wrote down the sums of money that should have come in for the work already done . |
| 18 | It had come in for the attack . |
| 19 | I 've come in for the polish |
| 20 | The wh he said in fact it 's just come in for the programme or something has n't it . |
| 21 | A £1,000 computer , several orders of magnitude more powerful than machines which cost £3,000 even five years ago , has very little profit built in for the supplier . |
| 22 | All right then well thank you Simon that 's a broad thank you and and thank you very much for your money as well a hundred and fifty quid he gave that 's loads of dosh er to come in for the day as well and I 'm going to take you out for a a nice lunch in a bit when he can wonder around have a poke around everywhere this afternoon too so should be all right should n't it that ? |
| 23 | I wo n't wait for the card , for the bill to come in for the card . |
| 24 | Banners , pamphlets and boxes being carried in for the start of fresher 's fair . |
| 25 | The cops worked shifts , but I was booked in for the run . |
| 26 | A party from Wick High School were booked in for the weekend . |
| 27 | Two stretch-limousines have been booked in for the party . |
| 28 | In 1952 it adopted the practice of permitting deputies to stand in for the ministers : the deputies soon became permanent features , attending to all business except that deemed to be symbolically important . |
| 29 | It suggests to me a little remarked aspect of dress and fashion : the ability of well chosen , beautiful garments to stand in for the body . |
| 30 | And by the way , I have an appointment in the city around eleven , so I may not be back to stand in for the dinner breaks . |