Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] in for [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jonathan has committed himself to rising early enough to get in for work before 9.00am . |
| 2 | The society 's charitable project soon got round the underworld , and in January 1773 they had a card hung in Westminster Jail stating that their charity was likely to be imposed upon ‘ by artful and designing villains who cause themselves to be arrested and imprisoned a day before the Society makes a distribution and thus come in for relief designed for the Poor distressed debtors imprisoned for a long time . ‘ |
| 3 | In spite of the fall , the Government still came in for criticism from opposition parties and trade union leaders , who pointed out that the total was still higher than this time last year . |
| 4 | ‘ Good old Acapulco — someone 's always dropping in for lunch ’ |
| 5 | are you do you ever go in for karaoke and stuff stuff like that ? |
| 6 | The police have also come in for critisism — for not providing enough officers . |
| 7 | Mr Gonzalez has also come in for criticism from within his own party . |
| 8 | Mr Gonzalez has also come in for criticism from within his own party . |
| 9 | The Ministry of Defence 's own research establishments also came in for criticism for playing too great a role in specifying , designing and managing defence projects . |
| 10 | The mill pond also came in for attention and was thoroughly dredged , and the dam , tunnels , gates and wheel repaired . |
| 11 | ‘ He told me he had once nearly gone in for psychiatry . |
| 12 | I did n't want the other boys to view us as being mates because then I would probably come in for abuse too . |
| 13 | The patient 's colour , face and body features as well as pulse and tongue will also come in for scrutiny . |
| 14 | Of course the proposals of the Beveridge report also now came in for mention . |
| 15 | But you see now come in for dinner after my dinner |
| 16 | The narrator-hero of Kingsley Amis 's The Green Man ( 1969 ) , in most respects an ordinary chap , has to be persuaded by his wife even to drop in for family meals . |
| 17 | The butler then went in for breeding dogs which he kept in large wire enclosures . |
| 18 | I tidied everything away and cleaned the shed up after my bomb-making activity , then went in for dinner . |
| 19 | You 'd have to take them all in to be examined , then see if there was any fraying around the trousers and you had n't reported it , for ordinary wear and tear had to be reported and then taken in for repair — you could n't repair it yourself . |
| 20 | The UAE , one of the states indicted by Iraq in 1990 , had previously come in for criticism without any members finding it necessary to resort to violence to obtain redress . |
| 21 | They did n't actually go in for sabotage or anything , did they ? ’ |
| 22 | Well I 'm vo involved in Crossline which is a a Christian run telephone helpline , erm , we off , also offer free counselling and they find that er , there 's more men will actually pick up the telephone , cos they 're not seen erm , whereas more women will actually come in for face to face counselling . |