Example sentences of "[verb] in for a [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Police marksmen were then drafted in for a 12 hour siege after he barricaded himself in . |
| 2 | Tony Underwood raced in for a 70 metre try in Leicester 's 30-14 win at London Irish . |
| 3 | At the present pace of progress in Brussels , similar changes throughout the EC may not come in for a dozen years or more , and British farmers fear that they will lose business while waiting for European competitors to catch up . |
| 4 | And this is , I mean , what they 're asking , actually to be fair to them they 've put in for a thousand pound against three . |
| 5 | Robert Meaby , whose brother Brian and the Eastbourne captain had been on the wrong end of a five and four beating in the bottom match , had with Christopher Walker already enjoyed a fair share of excitement , halving the shorter length with a birdie putt after Shrewsbury had chipped in for a two . |