Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] in for [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hateley baffled and upset by the affair says : ‘ I came in for that one game , and I thought I did reasonably well . |
| 2 | So I put in for that and I got that . |
| 3 | So anyway I put in for this job and and there were people who who ought to have got it before me , er for instance er there was a councillor at er at , Tom , did you know Tom ? |
| 4 | send you these things , I go in for all the competitions and I never put a stamp on the envelope unless I 'm ordering something |
| 5 | I missed several classes because they put me up in , for instance I , when I came up from the infants to the big school I missed the first standard and they put me into standard two and I went from two , three , four , five , six , seven and seven and I was only eleven , you see , so I did pretty well and then the Headmaster came to my parents and said , why do n't you let her go in for a scholarship to Stowmarket Secondary and so I went in for that and er there was one other girl went as well , there were two of us and erm , and of course we only heard during the summer break and er we passed . |
| 6 | But I did n't give up , I went in for another and I came third again , and then I gave up , so that was the end of that . |
| 7 | Well it 'd probably be the June or July before I went in for this exam , which they did n't hold very frequently and er then I had to pass this exam and that I could leave school in the August , Bank Holiday . |
| 8 | Twenty first , so if we got you booked in for that . |
| 9 | An' she drops in for another little drop , |
| 10 | Why did n't you go in for that ? |
| 11 | ‘ You can get a good view of the moonlight on the lake , if you go in for that sort of thing . |
| 12 | I gather there are plenty of crackpots who go in for that sort of thing . |
| 13 | If you would like to see me on top of Michael 's bonfire ring in and the er th th the more amount of votes we get in for that |
| 14 | Berkeley denies that we go in for such calculations in judging distances . |
| 15 | The so-called Main Force bombers from 5 and 6 Groups further north were usually later on the scene and were very heavily loaded with high explosives and incendiaries , and they came in for some real pastings . |
| 16 | So that 's probably why they go in for more of these courses things |
| 17 | But it was before they went in for all the cryptonyms and digraphs and five-letter codes because that 's what computers like … ’ |
| 18 | He went in for some pretty awful names , Robbie decided — first Sybil , now Petula . |