Example sentences of "[vb past] in for [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Is n't the phrase just meaningless , flung in for the rhythm , meaning no more than ‘ by pillar or by post ’ , ‘ by night or by day ’ , ‘ by hook or by crook ’ ? |
| 2 | He was hustled away by some of the extra police officers drafted in for the case . |
| 3 | The Defence Minister barely flinched as the camera zoomed in for a close-up of his face as they ran the famous film clip from mid-December , 1987 , in which he promised that it would all be over by Christmas . |
| 4 | The Defence Minister barely flinched as the camera zoomed in for a close-up of his face as they ran the famous film clip from mid-December , 1987 , in which he promised that it would all be over by Christmas . |
| 5 | Collecting her ticket , she came up behind him again as he checked in for the flight . |
| 6 | A £1,000 computer , several orders of magnitude more powerful than machines which cost £3,000 even five years ago , has very little profit built in for the supplier . |
| 7 | Rex moved in for a cuddle . |
| 8 | But , as the striker moved in for the kill , the defender retrieved the situation with a splendid recovery tackle . |
| 9 | An advance group of undergraduates moved in for the Michaelmas Term . |
| 10 | He could remember what a flurry Martha Pritchett used to get into when Lady Debrace stopped in for a cup of tea , and how afterwards she would tell them proudly how her ladyship had sat down and chatted as if she were no grander than Nurse Wilks ! |
| 11 | Hard to feel sorry for the laird , who would have watched the sweating workers from his window , hands in pockets , listening for the doorbell in case the king changed his mind and dropped in for a scone . |
| 12 | PREMIER John Major dropped in for a chat with British troops in the Bosnian front line yesterday . |
| 13 | PREMIER John Major dropped in for a chat with British troops in the Bosnian front line yesterday . |
| 14 | Nobody visited them in the evenings or dropped in for a chat during the day , except in the way of business — to sell wood to Uncle Philip or to arrange a booking for Francie and his fiddle . |
| 15 | Thousands drove in for the celebrations . |
| 16 | One morning when she was in his office working on his personal files Mike came in for a discussion . |
| 17 | He came in for a chat the other day and said , oh how you getting on ? |
| 18 | Friends came in for a drink and a snack and kept on coming and going for the rest of the day , which was useful as well as friendly because they brought their appetites with them , and most of the refreshments were disposed of . |
| 19 | Many of the farmer 's wives came in for a mug of tea and perhaps a piece of cake before they set off on the long drive for home . |
| 20 | Thus Jasper 's father might have been the man who was painting the flats and who came in for a cup of tea , or the old lover whom she happened to run into in Denmark Hill , or the neighbour who was moving out of Flat 16 and who came up to say goodbye while his girlfriend was packing their furniture into the rented van . |
| 21 | The immunity of Swiss companies to unfriendly or foreign takeovers came in for a pounding in 1988 after Nestlé took over Rowntree , a British confectioner , causing noisy British complaints about the lack of reciprocal opportunities . |
| 22 | SINEAD O'Connor came in for a lot of flack when she tore the picture of the Pope on American television but by selling her home for charity she has put her money where her mouth is . |
| 23 | ‘ I came in for a lot of criticism but I know in my heart that the good things I did there were very conveniently swept under the carpet at the time . ’ |
| 24 | The school timetable came in for a lot of criticism , especially in cases where arrangements resulted in classes split between two teachers . |
| 25 | ‘ I came in for a lot of adulation during my racing days — groupies . |
| 26 | But the attitude of women content to stay in their middle-level comfort zones came in for a lot too — not only from a male chief executive who had seen one of his recruits retreat from the fast track , but from senior female executives as well who felt women ‘ should take their share of responsibility for low applications for senior jobs . ’ |
| 27 | In 1980 we changed to a system of community and private nurses who came in for an hour or two in the morning and evening . |
| 28 | Valerie Welham recently came in for an inheritance , she 's offered the county council a hundred and ten thousand pounds for the building . |
| 29 | This and other theatres elsewhere were at their peak when the gentry came in for the Quarter Sessions ; for wives and marriageable daughters , there were the balls and concerts of the Assembly Rooms specially built at the back of the George Hotel . |
| 30 | When he came in for the night some hours later he was still agitated and fretting . |