Example sentences of "[vb past] in for [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | With the game going into added time Michael Galwey , after good work by Geoghegan , Clarke and Bradley , got in for an Irish try . |
2 | ‘ Dejala , ’ they yelled as she rode in for the big swipe and missed it . |
3 | Young Mrs M. looked shocked at the thought , so she waited outside , while I sprinted in for a quick glimpse at Bishop Stock 's former domain . |
4 | Two people replied — a man who offered to take it away for a fiver and Mrs Morrison , who dropped in for a quick look and said she wanted something for her playroom . |
5 | Despite the arrival of Pow and Currey ( who filled in for the absent Kolar ) , 'Mere continued to be driven back in the scrums . |
6 | The eight men , from St John 's College , came in for a severe dressing down from the police after they bared all on a two-mile row down the River Isis . |
7 | After four weeks every group had interviewed four of the original subjects , plus others who came in for a single session , and they had all accumulated a great amount of material . |
8 | This meant that the married women left at home came in for a large share of the work about the croft . |
9 | Here and elsewhere , the police also came in for a fair amount of criticism — Punch portrayed London 's genial giants Gog and Magog dressed as policeman , defending themselves from the wrath of the respectable populace — and there were perfectly sound reasons for such discontent . |
10 | Specifically , in the case of Anthony Miers , the Royal Navy submariner who finally came in for a teeny bit of criticism over his methods of disposing of German seamen who rather inconveniently surrendered . |
11 | He went out and Sisteradmission-ward came in for a short while , and we reconstructed the story . |
12 | The problems do n't end there ; Kingsley Black had one of his best games for Northern Ireland in Tirana , when he came in for the injured Michael Hughes . |
13 | Shane Warne , whose solitary wicket of the series had cost him 228 runs , was rested , while Tom Moody came in for the out-of-form Mark Waugh . |
14 | Furthermore , even if a woman paid in for a full pension she had to pass the ‘ half test ’ ; that is , she had to work for at least half of her married life before she could count in her contributions both before and after marriage ( Groves , 1983 , pp. 45–7 ) . |
15 | I popped in for a short while to the Scottish Gallery in Cork Street , to see the most recent sculptures by Gerald Laing . |
16 | The Righteous Brothers popped in for a swifty , as did Twin Peaks star Sherilyn Fenn . |
17 | The Righteous Brothers popped in for a swifty , as did Twin Peaks star Sherilyn Fenn . |
18 | I settled in for a relaxed , warm overview on the world high up in the comfy cab . |
19 | Eliza settled in for a four-month stint of painting and drawing . |
20 | The restaurant was subdued as the Conservative Party 's young ‘ spin doctors ’ settled in for a brisk dinner . |
21 | For instance , I have today recorded a radio interview in Welsh stressing the need to have an application for quarrying on the Carmel Woods SSSI called in for a public inquiry . |
22 | Tell him , said Jo said you never called in for a quick , I do n't mind David he 's alright |
23 | The world fell in for the hard-working TV star and his family as he drove home alone after an engagement opening a carpet store in the Midlands . |
24 | His father , however , preferred that Farrar went in for a professional career , and Farrar was articled to a firm of architects and surveyors in Northampton , becoming a Fellow of the Geographical Society . |
25 | Went in for a hot chocolate and that was it we did n't |
26 | Like Marx , William 's grandad went in for the broad dialectic of history and was n't too fussy about the fine print . |
27 | If you look at the people who went in for the Olympic Games , right up to the Second World War , erm you would call them amateurs . |
28 | She struggled and was nearly countered , but then negated Wu 's defence and slipped in for a one-armed shoulder throw . |