Example sentences of "in for [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Most houses had their windows barred as standard ; wealthier householders went in for burglar alarms .
2 We 've put a bid in for Arrow Park .
3 Jonathan has committed himself to rising early enough to get in for work before 9.00am .
4 Josie found her when she turned in for work at the club that evening .
5 Having signed in for work ( a must ) , we discovered that we were having a steam hauled works train , due to frozen diesel in ‘ Nellie ’ , the Yorkshire engine , so Rosyth No. 1 0-4-0ST was hastily put in steam , the work on the line was re-sleepering , which is great fun , and some shunting duties , and also a great deal of idle chatter .
6 Er I would , I would echo that , that we feel that they money has been paid in for work or services done by the employer and by the er fund members themselves have contributed and I do n't think it belongs to either of those parties in any more , it 's held by the trustees to pay pensions , if for nothing it 's been put there just to pay pensions , it 's not a piggy bank for er for companies to draw out with the with their tame er trustees allowing it , it it 's money the trustees hold in in trust and I believe that 's the law at the moment and er I I think we would like to see that confirmed in any new law .
7 Yeah she slept in for work again .
8 I were looking for an alarm clock , I thought I better have a new one else I 'm gon na start sleeping in for work .
9 what I 'm saying to you now is , I was saying to Arthur , the , the petrol money that we used to put in for petrol , it cost us five pound a week in the winter , but in the summer it cost us eight pound a week sometimes ten
10 That 's always a concern at the villages , because I live in a town , I live in a small town near here , erm I 've had a lot of dealings in villages , and people who live in villages always want to have starter homes , but as soon as you put an application in for starter homes , there 's even more opposition to it , as happened down in Bleasby , Council threw that one out .
11 Thousands set to flock in for country festival
12 His two brothers both died with smallpox cos one was , they all three went to Wolverhampton Grammar School and they were a Wednesbury family and they died with the smallpox but I thought they were putting the youngest which was my grandfather for the best trai one was going in for law and the other was going in for medicine , and the youngest was go which was the same as engineering is today I suppose , and he went into the gun trade , and I can remember him , he was a grand old chap and er he used to come and bring the springs that he 'd made and to temper them he used to throw them in the kitchen fire , and they 'd die out and get them all out of the ashes in the morning , and he used to take his week 's work in his waistcoat pockets and his day out was to get on the tram at the Brown Lion , and go straight through Wednesbury and right through West Bromwich up to the Constitutional in Birmingham to Greeners or Wembley and Scotts and he 'd got these gun locks as he 'd made during the week in his waistcoat pockets .
13 he went in for law .
14 The patient 's colour , face and body features as well as pulse and tongue will also come in for scrutiny .
15 Throughout the present chapter , and indeed elsewhere in this report , we have intimated that policies too must come in for scrutiny .
16 Be alright getting one in for Easter .
17 How to get the plan called in for consideration at a public inquiry , since there is every likelihood Dyfed County Council and possibly CCW would be prepared to negotiate a compromise , based on past performance .
18 Cos they did n't smear Biff right away , and when he did n't fight back they took him in for terrorgation
19 I know that my hon. Friend will understand that I can make no comments about the merits of the proposal which is the subject of our debate or about the case for calling it in for determination by my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State .
20 Obviously , at the moment we 're not publicly pointing the finger at your five chums , so we went in for blanket forensic tests on everyone and examination of everyone 's quarters . ’
21 ‘ Good old Acapulco — someone 's always dropping in for lunch
22 However , if it is ‘ Look out for the Purple Pig on your right in half a mile so that we can pull in for lunch ’ , then this is more reasonable .
23 They spend the next hour or so chatting before going in for lunch .
24 Why not pop in for lunch ?
25 At the far end of the room , marooned on a dais in splendid isolation , sat those fellows of the college who were in for lunch that day .
26 Are you in for lunch tomorrow ?
27 And they 'd all been in the run , so they all came in for lunch , and they , you know , it 's like twenty bar meals , and then they were coming up to drink , to order drinks , they were doing like ten drinks at a time .
28 Now I have a salaried job instead of running the home I have no time to do the shopping , take the car to the garage or wait in for service engineers of various sorts .
29 WE still get cars in for service from the 1950 's and 1960's .
30 are you do you ever go in for karaoke and stuff stuff like that ?
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