Example sentences of "[verb] in for [art] [noun sg] " 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 | UB may be pencilled in for a show in the King 's Hall on January |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | He was hustled away by some of the extra police officers drafted in for the case . |
| 10 | The Defence Minister barely flinched as the camera zoomed in for a close-up of his face as they ran the famous film clip from mid-December , 1987 , in which he promised that it would all be over by Christmas . |
| 11 | The Defence Minister barely flinched as the camera zoomed in for a close-up of his face as they ran the famous film clip from mid-December , 1987 , in which he promised that it would all be over by Christmas . |
| 12 | There are no hotel bills , they chip in for the petrol and food and everybody 's happy . ’ |
| 13 | Collecting her ticket , she came up behind him again as he checked in for the flight . |
| 14 | Firemen were called to the river Taff in Llandaff to rescue Eric , a 10-stone Irish Wolfhound who had got into deep water after deciding to go in for a swim . |
| 15 | You need the permission of the owner to go in for a title search so you 'd have to know the owner first . |
| 16 | I 'd like to go in for a bit , but there 's loads of people in there and I ai n't got no washing to do . |
| 17 | She had been accepted for the job at Ardis & Co , looking the way she normally looked , but if to keep her job — and she had no idea at that stage whether there was a Vasey junior , or similar , at G Vasey Ltd — she had to go in for a bit of de glamorisation , then so be it . |
| 18 | One of my other SCOTTISH OFFICE contacts has asked me to go in for a sandwich lunch on Wednesday ( 25th ) , which is kind . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Chris , tall , lithe and manly , strips off and goes in for a swim in his panda-briefs . |
| 21 | Yeah , and if goes in for a pint he gives you a packet now . |
| 22 | A packet now , goes in for a pint . |
| 23 | He goes in for a sort of hall-of-mirrors self-impersonation , telling people how he would have done the murder if he had done it ( which he has ) . |
| 24 | Her mother goes in for the bingo . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | ‘ It 's probably only one of the local kids sneaking in for a look around , ’ Jessamy tried to reassure herself . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | It 's different here , Léonie tried to explain : in our kitchen in London no one ever drops in for a chat . |
| 29 | Tiger Moth pilot Tony drops in for a pub pint |
| 30 | Judi Goodwin drops in for a mince pie and soaks up the atmosphere of this warm , family home . |