Example sentences of "have [vb pp] [adv prt] for a " in BNC.

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1 Understandably , this presumption has come in for a great deal of criticism .
2 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 .
3 JACQUES Delors has come in for a lot of flak for the collapse of the Gatt world trade talks .
4 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 .
5 While it has come in for a certain amount of criticism , it has also attracted much praise , especially from industry .
6 Pam has come down for a day of shopping , bringing along our adopted younger sister Kath .
7 Take this tiny sample : Leopold Bloom , the Dublin Jew , with his touching mixture of timorousness and courage , has looked in for a few moments at a church as a Mass is ending .
8 Meanwhile , West Ham defender Julian Dicks has revved up for a big-match return tonight — thanks to a £10,000 Harley Davidson .
9 ‘ What has made it particularly difficult , for manufacturers of all sizes , but most of all for smaller ones , is that it has gone on for a long time .
10 As you may already realise , once again the Almeida has gone in for a lot of posh posturing got up as a drama of social consciousness .
11 Bob did not retire immediately as he has worked on for a few months to introduced new salesmen to their areas .
12 A forty year old airliner that seats just fourteen passengers has taken off for a new lease of life in Australia .
13 Microsoft 's Windows NT group has signed up for a 20ft by 20ft booth , claiming it does n't have the budget for a bigger space .
14 Reed has signed up for a further period of seven years to publish the back list of John Steinbeck , after submitting a lavish brochure of marketing plans to the estate .
15 Does any hon. Member seriously think that , after Britain has signed up for a single currency , we could go to war on our own and expect the 11 countries who share the same currency to stand idly by and see the value of their currency wrecked , for ever depreciating , just because Britain was in one of its periodic warmongering fits ?
16 West Indian pace bowler Ken McLeod has signed up for a second stint at Synthonia after being absent from the league for three years .
17 Cleveland Ambulance NHS Trust has signed up for a Department of Health initiative which encourages healthy living for all staff .
18 They 'd laid in for a siege with dozens of eggs , cans of luncheon meat , and tea .
19 Then they 'd gone in for a look .
20 She wondered if the others were playing a joke on her : perhaps they 'd gone out for a walk ; perhaps , at this very moment , they were laughing at the thought of her waiting for a killer who would never come .
21 I had this octopus once in Germany and it , we 'd gone out for a meal and I was gon na have steak and mushrooms and
22 I married Melanie , if I 'm honest , because she was the only one who 'd held out for a wedding-ring . ’
23 I was expecting you , of course , but I must have dropped off for a few minutes . ’
24 I 'll have booked in for a course in Bristol starting in September — an art course , no one cares what art students look like — or drama maybe .
25 I may have dozed off for a while .
26 Maybe I should have hung on for a few days in there getting to grips with Alf Bundy 's ailments .
27 The rain having petered out for a while , we all went out to stare at the sunset , about which the two poets made lurid remarks .
28 " Did he die almost immediately , or is there any possibility that he could have walked about for a time , even locked the door and set the alarms ? "
29 well drove out and turned , her bumper caught Mick 's wing and right up against the wheel so imagine to pull it out to drive it and the driver said oh wo n't claim on the insurance she said , erm , I 'll pay it , get three estimates and let me have them and Mick said it 's gon na be about three hundred quid , well if it had gone through the insurance he could then have put in for a hire car
30 If I 'd been a union member I might have held out for a better offer or some redundancy money , but I was n't , so that was that .
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