Example sentences of "come [adv prt] for a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While it has come in for a certain amount of criticism , it has also attracted much praise , especially from industry . |
| 2 | Understandably , this presumption has come in for a great deal of criticism . |
| 3 | and erm I used to do erm , keep a check on the flying times of the planes cos every forty hours they had to come in for a different check . |
| 4 | He never wrote entirely admiring reviews : ‘ It 's the essence of a book never to be perfect , ’ he said , ‘ so its writer must expect to come in for a little criticism . ’ |
| 5 | We used to come in for a fair amount of ribbing and good-natured chaff , and remarks like , Was it a red sky this morning ? |
| 6 | If I may broaden it away from erm the Cardinal Newman School and think probably of a lot of East Sussex Comprehensive Schools , I think we have all been , in the schools , in the last few years , working hard to establish this openness , and I think that the closed concept of the school , the school that locks children out at break or locks children out at dinner time , which only allows parents to come in for a phoney Open Day when there are a few children there , they are things largely , I think , of the past and they are the closed society . |
| 7 | She said politely , ‘ Would you like to come in for a last drink ? ’ |
| 8 | It also seemed , from the feathers on the kitchen floor , that one of the pigeons had come down for a warm and had got too close . |
| 9 | I ask him to come down for a few days and I also invite Lady De Marr . |
| 10 | " Ask Dr. Lorrimer to come down for a few minutes , will you please ? " |
| 11 | Sixty miles they used to come over for a good evening at those and maybe two principles |
| 12 | I think she 's probably just come out for a quick stroll , we wo n't spend our time over that at the moment , hello |
| 13 | Should n't we be opening our universities to older people , for people to come back for a second dose as it were , for retraining and so on ? |
| 14 | The plane came down for a smooth landing amid the radar gear . |
| 15 | Lio ! rt came in for a second run , but slower this time to allow for the big man 's unexpected agility . |
| 16 | The eight men , from St John 's College , came in for a severe dressing down from the police after they bared all on a two-mile row down the River Isis . |
| 17 | After four weeks every group had interviewed four of the original subjects , plus others who came in for a single session , and they had all accumulated a great amount of material . |
| 18 | This meant that the married women left at home came in for a large share of the work about the croft . |
| 19 | Here and elsewhere , the police also came in for a fair amount of criticism — Punch portrayed London 's genial giants Gog and Magog dressed as policeman , defending themselves from the wrath of the respectable populace — and there were perfectly sound reasons for such discontent . |
| 20 | Specifically , in the case of Anthony Miers , the Royal Navy submariner who finally came in for a teeny bit of criticism over his methods of disposing of German seamen who rather inconveniently surrendered . |
| 21 | He went out and Sisteradmission-ward came in for a short while , and we reconstructed the story . |
| 22 | Our son Greg came over for a few days to do some business in England and to see his father . |
| 23 | I came over for a short visit when my parents first moved here … ’ |
| 24 | He came up for a few days and stayed in Mackay 's Hotel in Ardallt . |
| 25 | The sun came up for a half an hour , but it was too cold : -46° Centigrade . |
| 26 | They all just came back for a regular routine follow up , just a little bit late . |
| 27 | When I was driving my new Granada in 1989 and dropped a friend down the road , a police car came past , saw the car with a black man driving it , circled round and came back for a second check . |
| 28 | The parents of the kids at the school where Mrs Rogers taught had her barred from the school , in case the hit squad came back for a second try . |
| 29 | Juul was undefeated by an opponent in his four scheduled rides although in heat 13 when he came out for an extra race he was disqualified for unfair riding when bringing down Donny Odom and Steve Regeling . |
| 30 | The first attempt was almost a disaster , but he got the plane up again and came round for a second shot . |