Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] in for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Without exception they were splattered in paint as if they 'd gone in for action art . |
| 2 | You 're well-matched with Doreen , who was ready to kick an old lady out of the home she 'd lived in for years . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ Do you remember that old lady who kept coming in for Roald Dahl , saying he was a woman ? ’ sobbed Denise . |
| 4 | Some of the singers knew their place in that production — almost miraculously , Gergiev had coaxed Sergei Leiferkus away from a couple of London Fiery Angels to sing Tomsky for old times ' sake — but one of Gergiev 's protégés , Gegam Gregorian , was tackling Hermann for the first time , and Maria Guleghina had flown in for Lisa . |
| 5 | And then , at half past eight , we used to have to get everything ready for breakfast and have it all ready ; and then we had to go in for prayers . |
| 6 | The police bed was the most comfortable he had slept in for years , and the meal really good . |
| 7 | The one she had slept in for years before moving upstairs this summer to share with Thérèse . |
| 8 | Where once dockers and carmen had gone in for breakfast or a midday meal they now sat around drinking mugs of tea and eating slices of toast and dripping . |
| 9 | He had told Mr Gibson they had been walking past the barn and had gone in for shelter . |
| 10 | Snow lying in the sun and making the place we had lived in for years suddenly fresh and rare . |