Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [verb] in for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Kenya has been so dependent on official aid and structural adjustment loans that its government dared not go in for countertrading — despite the fact that , like Brazil , it was surrounded by poor , debt-ridden neighbours . |
| 2 | Parker did not go in for German beer . |
| 3 | And when , to show what a good little wife I had become — Nonni thought that my aunts did not ‘ appreciate ’ me , meaning that they did not go in for endearments or tell me how pretty I looked — she pointed out , one Sunday lunchtime , how well I had starched the table napkins , Aunt Lilian said , ‘ But why ? |
| 4 | We were not at a party , he did not go in for brunettes , and I was very much his junior . |
| 5 | Even when I arrived back at Thornfield , I did not go in for a while . |
| 6 | Although tankers did not come in for the attention they received in the 1980s , on 25 January Platt 's carried an account of an attack on an Iraqi tanker by US aircraft . |
| 7 | I said I was n't cuttin' no-one 's throat , I did n't go in for it . |
| 8 | ‘ And she did n't go in for violent amateur dramatics with a bunch of friends ? ’ |
| 9 | How was she to explain that she did n't go in for this high-profile look ? |
| 10 | My family did n't go in for that sort of thing . |
| 11 | But the non-conformists did n't go in for much decoration . |
| 12 | er , but they did n't go in for food like er you 're talking about |
| 13 | Anyway , and it was all such a , a resounding success so I , I was regaled with all the details of what she , and in what she had indulged and er , she said she went in more for the pi er she did n't go in for erm aromatherapy and the reflexology and the facials and the manicures and things , she went in for loads of bicycling and exercising and er and steam baths and things . |
| 14 | Well that , that 's why I think I went down so hard when I did n't get that job cos she said , I , I took , I took the erm , I went , I was the first , to go , first of all I did n't put in for this job it 's one that 's been laying around since last September , I wrote to , kept to St. Mary 's for this mental health thing and I got in touch with this Mrs and she said I 've got nothing I can offer you at the moment but I , I will be in touch and I went down the job centre one day and erm , there was this thing to say that they wanted mental nurses |
| 15 | Diana seemed distressed , rushing around in a distracted way — oblivious , it seemed to me , of the work we had all put in for her brother 's wedding . |
| 16 | We 've already seen how carefully planned customer flow can encourage the shopper to leave with a loaded basket when she had only popped in for a loaf of bread or a pint of milk . |
| 17 | He was lonely and broke and had already barged in for the loan of a cupful of Quaker oats . |
| 18 | She said she could n't stay , that she had just dropped in for a minute . |
| 19 | Proud and pleased to be playing opposite Frank Donovan who had once stood in for Hayden Coffin . |
| 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 . |