Example sentences of "in for [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you wanted more money , you should have gone in for doctoring , academicking , police inspectoring or company secretarying . |
| 2 | As a result of grass roots pressure , city halls and private groups are encouraging people to take their 1989 Christmas trees in for recycling into mulch , fuel or erosion barriers . |
| 3 | Whitechurch wrote : ‘ The immense timber yard is enough to make one imagine that material had been laid in for building a fleet of a hundred arks after the pattern of Noah 's . |
| 4 | ‘ Do n't stamp on the Catholics ; else I 'll have to run you in for kicking me mother in the face . ’ |
| 5 | Her youngest daughter seems to be going in for nannying . |
| 6 | What 's it to me if you and yer lady friend are goin' in for liftin' ? |
| 7 | Kenya has been so dependent on official aid and structural adjustment loans that its government dared not go in for countertrading — despite the fact that , like Brazil , it was surrounded by poor , debt-ridden neighbours . |
| 8 | ‘ Yorkshiremen do n't go in for paying compliments , ’ she said . |
| 9 | Of course , it 's quite right , and it 's it 's in a sense maybe reasonable to oppose a budget , but in the past , I think it 's been erm , one of the strengths of the labour group , when in opposition to put alternative budgets in for say , yes , we take a view that 's different to the budget that 's before us , but so far with two conservative speakers , we 've not had the benefit of knowing which items , which levels of of spending within this policy committee , be it the Chief Exec . |
| 10 | No — I would n't take them in for fighting . |
| 11 | When connected via the phono jacks , the signal level of these can be mixed in for playing along to some backing . |
| 12 | ‘ Well , you see , the thing is , there are very few people in our class or any group I 'm in [ O level ] that seem to go in for playing up the teachers , but I know that in some other classes there are . |
| 13 | Yeah knowing she , she 'll probably be put in for planning then for coke |
| 14 | You know the thing you went in for , , you said I could go in for recording ? |
| 15 | ‘ To turn you in for abducting a minor . ’ |
| 16 | I only go in for skinpopping . |
| 17 | Human beings it seems are not the only animals who go in for worshipping idols . |
| 18 | You did n't have to go in for banging drums and shaking rattles to be a shaman ; you had simply to have suffered tremendously , been torn apart , come close to death . |
| 19 | His friend remarked that , ‘ All sorts of people get run in for motoring offences . |
| 20 | Five pound for you and there 's five pound for Tom for coming in for doing this . |
| 21 | If he 's in for working with us on the next single then it might happen . ’ |
| 22 | Instead of the dominant males moving in and taking over the females during the breeding period , they are simply allowed in for mating only and then driven out again . |
| 23 | The light mornings are coming along and the cows can be taken in for milking earlier . |
| 24 | The parents of one family were n't taken in for questioning at all that day , but Mrs W was . |
| 25 | That smokey jazz sound , those spooky atmospherics , that beauty of a voice ( Diane , her name is Cruise , Julee with two ee 's — bring her in for questioning ) . |
| 26 | As she looked blank he went on : ‘ Wickham had Pascoe in for questioning this afternoon . |
| 27 | Within a further twenty-four hours , his sister , Mrs Roxie Farmer , divorcee , was taken in for questioning at Royal Hill police station , but claimed she knew nothing . |
| 28 | Sir Edmund Mandeville is correct — perhaps she should be brought in for questioning . |
| 29 | As many as 18 executives from the two British companies implicated in the supergun affair ( Sheffield Engineering and Walter Summers ) were taken in for questioning by UK customs officials . |
| 30 | ‘ I could always pull him in for questioning . ’ |