Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] in for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But William 's grandad was too busy working to notice or care , riding shotgun to a great clattering brute of a knitting machine that reminded him of the Irish cobs he 'd broken in for the brewery ; he could knit thirty fully fashioned stockings an hour , sixteen hours a day . |
| 2 | They 'd laid in for a siege with dozens of eggs , cans of luncheon meat , and tea . |
| 3 | Then they 'd gone in for a look . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | If the literary establishment had thought to compare notes they would have realized that every male aura on and off Fleet Street had come in for a bashing . |
| 6 | He had come in for a book of stamps , and when he had got it he joined Breeze , who was waiting on the Green . |
| 7 | It had come in for the attack . |
| 8 | Duncan was dug in at the bottom of the orchard and had called in for a chat on his way from Brigade H.Q He was very interested in bagpipe music , having served with the Gordon Highlanders before joining the Commandos . |
| 9 | After the fish had settled in for a few days , one that I had thought to be a male showed signs of filling eggs , and developed a bright yellow patch on her belly . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | An endless stream of proposals had poured in for the £20 million a year it had to dispense . |
| 13 | Robert Meaby , whose brother Brian and the Eastbourne captain had been on the wrong end of a five and four beating in the bottom match , had with Christopher Walker already enjoyed a fair share of excitement , halving the shorter length with a birdie putt after Shrewsbury had chipped in for a two . |