Example sentences of "and [verb] in for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Chris , tall , lithe and manly , strips off and goes in for a swim in his panda-briefs . |
| 2 | OTHERS have preferred to select the right machine for the duty and ground conditions and hired in for the job . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Some universities now have deputy or pro vice chancellors , who chair major committees and stand in for the vice chancellor . |
| 5 | BIGGLES pilot Anthony West coolly landed his vintage Tiger Moth biplane right outside a secluded country pub — and swaggered in for a pint . |
| 6 | Contentedly I went below and turned in for a few hours , leaving my colleague to navigate . |
| 7 | The price of oil would probably rise to more than $50 a barrel and dig in for a stay of some months . |
| 8 | In some respects Kerrier may have constituted an exception , yet although the mean of £4.4 per head may need scaling down to take account of the multitude of labourers discovered and roped in for the subsidy , upwards of seven-tenths of the assessments made in 1522 were at £2 — £4 . |
| 9 | Having been stung in a similar situation in their last league game when Gregor McKechnie called their bluff over a kickable penalty and scuttled in for a try , Tukalo tried to do likewise after Joe Munro had been caught offside in the Watsonian 22 , as Scott Hastings was called to arms to police Linton . |
| 10 | On every channel earnest-looking men with maps and pointers , looking like war-gamers in some fiendish Pentagon basement , demonstrate — predict , even — the inch-by-inch path that the storm is taking , noting that it usually passes off to the north , but may perhaps curve back upon itself and go in for a second strike . |
| 11 | He stopped at the door and stared in for a minute . |
| 12 | Gregor Townsend later managed to pass to the referee — clad in near identical colours to the Scots — for the Samoans to plunder ball and scuttle in for the first of their three tries , though it might have been more had we not seen defensive heroics typified by a timely tackle on Leilane Une by Derek Turnbull . |
| 13 | She struggled and was nearly countered , but then negated Wu 's defence and slipped in for a one-armed shoulder throw . |
| 14 | At this time he developed a feeling for courses and put in for every course in sight . |
| 15 | It was the smell of a hundred bodies that had not been bathed for a week , of a hundred sets of clothes that had been lived and slept in for a week , of excreta and vomit trapped by the windows that had not been opened for a week . |
| 16 | Lindsey came on and sat in for a couple of numbers and really enjoyed being back on the boards with us lot . |