Example sentences of "[be] [verb] in for [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wherever possible , keep the water that the mushrooms are soaked in for use in the recipe . |
| 2 | THE South West Thames regional health authority requested the army be drafted in for ambulance work when it became clear the police could not cope , according to ambulance mangement . |
| 3 | Each week , a comedian from the '50s or '60s would be wheeled in for cameo relief ( eg Jimmy Jewel , Peggy Mount , Arthur English ) as a cantankerous alcoholic old patient , and you were guaranteed one horrifying accident per 60 minutes . |
| 4 | You said I 'll phone you if I 'm coming in for tea ! |
| 5 | I forgot to mention earlier that I 'll be standing in for emergency cover tonight . ’ |
| 6 | It is not difficult to learn a simple technique of inducing a hypnotic state in another person — it is knowing how to deal with that person once he is hypnotized which is important , and not to be indulged in for fun . |
| 7 | A hospital spokesman said she would be kept in for observation while doctors decided on the best treatment for her . |
| 8 | And as there was a serious possibility of being invited in for tea and vegetable curry , I thought it wise to make myself scarce . |
| 9 | You hurry slowly in the Atlas : at the highest village we were taken in for tea again , by a sister of Ali 's . |
| 10 | He is being kept in for observation . ’ |
| 11 | For the exasperated livestock farmer , with fears for the future of his pig unit or broiler house , for the fruit-grower alarmed by the possibility of a poisonous spray inadvertently finding its way into the metabolism of a casual passerby , and for the cereals farmer who does not take kindly to his best malting barley being trampled down in order to create an impromptu picnic site , the simplest solution is to go in for siege tactics . |
| 12 | and who 's going in for emergency surgery and whose chances of coming out are virtually nil anyway . |
| 13 | Er I would , I would echo that , that we feel that they money has been paid in for work or services done by the employer and by the er fund members themselves have contributed and I do n't think it belongs to either of those parties in any more , it 's held by the trustees to pay pensions , if for nothing it 's been put there just to pay pensions , it 's not a piggy bank for er for companies to draw out with the with their tame er trustees allowing it , it it 's money the trustees hold in in trust and I believe that 's the law at the moment and er I I think we would like to see that confirmed in any new law . |
| 14 | His two brothers both died with smallpox cos one was , they all three went to Wolverhampton Grammar School and they were a Wednesbury family and they died with the smallpox but I thought they were putting the youngest which was my grandfather for the best trai one was going in for law and the other was going in for medicine , and the youngest was go which was the same as engineering is today I suppose , and he went into the gun trade , and I can remember him , he was a grand old chap and er he used to come and bring the springs that he 'd made and to temper them he used to throw them in the kitchen fire , and they 'd die out and get them all out of the ashes in the morning , and he used to take his week 's work in his waistcoat pockets and his day out was to get on the tram at the Brown Lion , and go straight through Wednesbury and right through West Bromwich up to the Constitutional in Birmingham to Greeners or Wembley and Scotts and he 'd got these gun locks as he 'd made during the week in his waistcoat pockets . |
| 15 | His two brothers both died with smallpox cos one was , they all three went to Wolverhampton Grammar School and they were a Wednesbury family and they died with the smallpox but I thought they were putting the youngest which was my grandfather for the best trai one was going in for law and the other was going in for medicine , and the youngest was go which was the same as engineering is today I suppose , and he went into the gun trade , and I can remember him , he was a grand old chap and er he used to come and bring the springs that he 'd made and to temper them he used to throw them in the kitchen fire , and they 'd die out and get them all out of the ashes in the morning , and he used to take his week 's work in his waistcoat pockets and his day out was to get on the tram at the Brown Lion , and go straight through Wednesbury and right through West Bromwich up to the Constitutional in Birmingham to Greeners or Wembley and Scotts and he 'd got these gun locks as he 'd made during the week in his waistcoat pockets . |
| 16 | Dr. Prior was called in for consultation and his advice was followed . |
| 17 | Mr Baines needed stitches and was kept in for observation after needles from the artificial conifer , wielded by wife Lorraine , became embedded in his scalp . |