Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] in for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Claims for damages against British accountancy firms have proliferated since the 1970s , when the aggressively litigious environment that US accountants had operated in for many years spread to the UK . |
| 2 | That , for some reason , almost made him give up , not the pain , but the familiar bit of furniture , the bed he had slept in for fifteen years , now hopelessly astray and as it seemed attacking him . |
| 3 | And black dancers had gone in for contemporary or modern dance because they had felt ballet to be a white art form to be watched by white people . ’ |
| 4 | Would n't have minded if the driver had gone in for some stronger magic — the old Christianity did n't seem to be having much effect on his driving . |
| 5 | With the Nuclear Installations Inspectorate ( NII ) yet to give the go-ahead , or otherwise , for the station to re-start generation again after being shut down since February , 1991 , Mr Moares said it was not surprising that some people had put in for voluntary redundancy . |
| 6 | The traumatic experiences the men had already been through — the drama of the inrush of slurry , the knowledge that they were entombed , the foul air they had lived in for two days , and the threat of the gathering gas — meant that the half-mile walk wearing apparatus , and a further one and a half miles to the surface , would be a severe test of their remaining stamina and resolve . |
| 7 | Charles Chaplin left for London , to present his film Limelight , and chose exile when he was told he would be examined on his fitness to re-enter the country he had lived in for forty years . |
| 8 | What a way to return to the city I had lived in for ten too-long years and had left with but a rucksack on my back only a couple of months previously . |
| 9 | The Wilsons were made homeless when the rented house they had lived in for three years was seized by the building society their landlord had not been paying his mortgage . |
| 10 | However , the Stuarts eventually got traded in for solid Hanoverian stock , and the latest evidence suggests that the South learned fast . |