Example sentences of "i [verb] in for [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hateley baffled and upset by the affair says : ‘ I came in for that one game , and I thought I did reasonably well . |
| 2 | So I put in for that and I got that . |
| 3 | So anyway I put in for this job and and there were people who who ought to have got it before me , er for instance er there was a councillor at er at , Tom , did you know Tom ? |
| 4 | send you these things , I go in for all the competitions and I never put a stamp on the envelope unless I 'm ordering something |
| 5 | I missed several classes because they put me up in , for instance I , when I came up from the infants to the big school I missed the first standard and they put me into standard two and I went from two , three , four , five , six , seven and seven and I was only eleven , you see , so I did pretty well and then the Headmaster came to my parents and said , why do n't you let her go in for a scholarship to Stowmarket Secondary and so I went in for that and er there was one other girl went as well , there were two of us and erm , and of course we only heard during the summer break and er we passed . |
| 6 | But I did n't give up , I went in for another and I came third again , and then I gave up , so that was the end of that . |
| 7 | Well it 'd probably be the June or July before I went in for this exam , which they did n't hold very frequently and er then I had to pass this exam and that I could leave school in the August , Bank Holiday . |