Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] in for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hateley baffled and upset by the affair says : ‘ I came in for that one game , and I thought I did reasonably well . |
| 2 | So I put in for that and I got that . |
| 3 | So anyway I put in for this job and and there were people who who ought to have got it before me , er for instance er there was a councillor at er at , Tom , did you know Tom ? |
| 4 | send you these things , I go in for all the competitions and I never put a stamp on the envelope unless I 'm ordering something |
| 5 | He mumbles when I go in for specific points , he puts an accent on , but I think he 's trying to tell me Hess is dead . |
| 6 | I missed several classes because they put me up in , for instance I , when I came up from the infants to the big school I missed the first standard and they put me into standard two and I went from two , three , four , five , six , seven and seven and I was only eleven , you see , so I did pretty well and then the Headmaster came to my parents and said , why do n't you let her go in for a scholarship to Stowmarket Secondary and so I went in for that and er there was one other girl went as well , there were two of us and erm , and of course we only heard during the summer break and er we passed . |
| 7 | But I did n't give up , I went in for another and I came third again , and then I gave up , so that was the end of that . |
| 8 | Well it 'd probably be the June or July before I went in for this exam , which they did n't hold very frequently and er then I had to pass this exam and that I could leave school in the August , Bank Holiday . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Twenty first , so if we got you booked in for that . |
| 11 | An' she drops in for another little drop , |
| 12 | What about , is it a big hassle you getting in for nine ? |
| 13 | Why did n't you go in for that ? |
| 14 | ‘ You can get a good view of the moonlight on the lake , if you go in for that sort of thing . |
| 15 | You go in for three days and you have a big dose of drugs . |
| 16 | If you would like to see me on top of Michael 's bonfire ring in and the er th th the more amount of votes we get in for that |
| 17 | Berkeley denies that we go in for such calculations in judging distances . |
| 18 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 19 | The so-called Main Force bombers from 5 and 6 Groups further north were usually later on the scene and were very heavily loaded with high explosives and incendiaries , and they came in for some real pastings . |
| 20 | At first the mobbers showed the typical agitated response but then , when the stuffed bird failed to retaliate , they dashed in for violent physical assaults on its body . |
| 21 | They go in for querulous and disputatious argument . |
| 22 | So that 's probably why they go in for more of these courses things |
| 23 | But it was before they went in for all the cryptonyms and digraphs and five-letter codes because that 's what computers like … ’ |
| 24 | Instead they went in for archaic exclamations such as ‘ Botheration ! ’ or made up their own : ‘ Slitherkins ! ’ |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | He went in for some pretty awful names , Robbie decided — first Sybil , now Petula . |
| 27 | He put in for five . |
| 28 | So , he waited in for two days nothing ! |
| 29 | Or he stood in for one or other of the teachers , notably Miss Gilberd when she wanted to ‘ pop home ’ , or Mr McWhirter when he failed altogether to arrive . |
| 30 | 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 . |