Example sentences of "had [vb pp] in for the " in BNC.

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1 The Acting Reporter from Strathclyde , Gordon Sloan , who had filled in for the past year , would continue to look after the cases with which he had been involved .
2 It had come in for the attack .
3 I kept just killing time until it had gone eleven o'clock and all the cinema-goers had gone in for the late shows , at which point I decided to call it a day .
4 The driver of the van had been wanted for questioning , and the way CI5 had gone in for the arrest had clearly been the direct cause of the van 's destruction on the hot end of the booby-trap bomb it had been carrying .
5 An endless stream of proposals had poured in for the £20 million a year it had to dispense .
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