Example sentences of "[verb] come in for [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 However , the Green Paper has come in for a variety of criticisms and there is little evidence that its recommendations will be acted upon in the short- or medium-term .
2 JACQUES Delors has come in for a lot of flak for the collapse of the Gatt world trade talks .
3 The prince has come in for a lot of criticism from the UN and the West for spending most of the past few months in China .
4 She sat at the table and painstakingly wrote down the sums of money that should have come in for the work already done .
5 I 've come in for the polish
6 He had come in for a book of stamps , and when he had got it he joined Breeze , who was waiting on the Green .
7 If the literary establishment had thought to compare notes they would have realized that every male aura on and off Fleet Street had come in for a bashing .
8 It had come in for the attack .
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