Example sentences of "have gone in for " in BNC.
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| 1 | MY Mont Blanc fountain pen is en panne and has gone in for repairs . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Then they 'd gone in for a look . |
| 4 | Without exception they were splattered in paint as if they 'd gone in for action art . |
| 5 | So then this fellow comes to the phone , obviously his missus had entered it and he did n't have a bloody clue that she 'd gone in for it and he 'd just come home from work and er Annika Rice there , saying oh where is she ? |
| 6 | If you wanted more money , you should have gone in for doctoring , academicking , police inspectoring or company secretarying . |
| 7 | None of these was Marine Projects standard , and he could n't help wondering what kind of water sports the original owner might have gone in for . |
| 8 | Oxford should have gone in for their half-time cuppa. 1-0 up . |
| 9 | Do n't tell me you 've gone in for politics . |
| 10 | Well , we 've done that , as we said we would and of course , in a business such as Pearson , which is a people business er , although we regularly monitor employment statistics , such as total employ total number of employees er , revenue per employee , cost per employee , profit per employee , there are times when we have to take er , difficult decisions and er , so we 've gone in for a lot of redundancy , which we 'll see in , in er during the next slide or two . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | And black dancers had gone in for contemporary or modern dance because they had felt ballet to be a white art form to be watched by white people . ’ |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Where once dockers and carmen had gone in for breakfast or a midday meal they now sat around drinking mugs of tea and eating slices of toast and dripping . |
| 15 | Would n't have minded if the driver had gone in for some stronger magic — the old Christianity did n't seem to be having much effect on his driving . |
| 16 | He had told Mr Gibson they had been walking past the barn and had gone in for shelter . |
| 17 | Clients who have gone in for Public Issues often rue the day they chose to sell through a licensed dealer . |
| 18 | Erm , B P for example , have gone in for what they call erm , a culture change . |