Example sentences of "[verb] in for [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was really a good play , ha , and it was done so well , and you were so close to it as well , you got in for two pounds , best thing I 've ever seen . |
| 2 | It is the house that your father lived in for fifteen years . |
| 3 | When the band is removed from the machine there will be two ends of yarn to sew in for each buttonhole . |
| 4 | I voted for this government because they said they were n't going to go in for that sort of rubbish . |
| 5 | At home he decided to go in for wholesale enclosures , encouraged his tenants to take long leases by reducing their rents , and instructed them in modern scientific methods . |
| 6 | Yes , Americans , erm I have the impression , they 're being rather slow to go in for this sort of Federal legislation . |
| 7 | New York drug dealers seem to go in for sophisticated marketing ploys . |
| 8 | Edwina , the worldly mother-in-law who goes in for interior decoration . |
| 9 | Corinthian Geometric goes in for small vessels of very high technical quality , simply and elegantly decorated . |
| 10 | In the afternoon , one or both of us goes in for extra teaching , discussions , etc. in the afternoon , and then we eat dinner at 6 . |
| 11 | He also goes in for creative self-plundering by way of rhetorical and dialectical self-parody . |
| 12 | Only one copy of Section 1 needs to be filled in , but ideally separate copies of Sections 2 , 3 and 4 should be filled in for each course taught in the appropriate field . |
| 13 | But that policy has come in for sharp criticism from monetarists who insist that it has fed the rapid expansion of broad money supply , M4 , and inflamed inflationary pressures . |
| 14 | It is on the detail of the recommendations that Cadbury has come in for strong criticism — in particular , over some of the recommendations in the code ( see also this issue , p 24 ) . |
| 15 | Christianity especially has come in for great criticism as being the major religion in the history of Western civilization . |
| 16 | Inspection has come in for much discussion today as a major part of the Bill . |
| 17 | The Forestry Commission has declared its intention to expand forestry , particularly of the broadleaved variety , at " down the hill " locations — a move away from recent tendencies to afforest uplands with conifer plantations , which have come in for extensive criticism [ see section on Pollution : Air in this issue ] . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Superficially attractive and officially , if implicitly , condoned by UNESCO , this theory has come in for severe criticism from Western media interests and journalists . |
| 20 | It will also outline the role and operation of the Social Work Services Inspectorate , which has come in for severe criticism since it was set up by the Scottish Office a year ago . |
| 21 | A spate of airline buyouts , which has touched every major US carrier during the last six months , has come in for growing criticism because of the heavy debt it loads on the companies . |
| 22 | The police have come in for heavy criticism but Rosenthal 's following observation about distortion in behavioural science may be cited as an apologia for some police shortcomings : |
| 23 | The various caveats expressed in 6.8.4 on the use of statistical techniques by sociolinguists are not as negative as they might seem , since recently the overuse of significance testing in social science research generally has come in for some criticism . |
| 24 | However , the NRA has come in for some criticism for not taking action . |
| 25 | Bloke supposed to come in for new business pitch will have got there by now . |
| 26 | ‘ Well , that 's the first thing we have to make him see , then we need to get him to come in for regular counselling sessions . ’ |
| 27 | Not that she intended accepting any favours from him , but she knew he was booked in for two nights , which gave her time to return his hospitality if she could not manipulate tonight into a Dutch treat . |
| 28 | You have to produce a return transatlantic ticket and your passport both when buying the airpass and when checking in for each flight . |
| 29 | At the Stonewall Inn in Greenwich Village eight cops moved in for another raid on a gay bar . |
| 30 | Midfielder Ferguson , indeed , has outshone most of his more experienced rivals as he fills in for injured Bryan Robson , as the expense of England 's Neil Webb . |