Example sentences of "[been] [verb] in for a " in BNC.
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| 1 | A twenty year old man has been called in for a chat with an inspector . |
| 2 | Peter Tomlinson , inexperienced in television terms , had been brought in for a key " anchor " role and I could appreciate the excessive pressure on him . |
| 3 | Almost every word has been put in for a purpose and needs to be commented upon . |
| 4 | But her deep tanned face had been lived in for a fistful of decades . |
| 5 | If the property has been lived in for a long time with old carpets that have never been shampooed they can exude quite pungent odours . |
| 6 | The house was n't run-down , either , but there were touches here and there betraying the fact 64 that it had n't been lived in for a couple of years ; the windows that were n't shuttered were n't clean , and there were weeds pushing up through the gravel . |
| 7 | I realized that this was the same place Brian and I had been held in for a week in May 1988 before going to the Pit . |