Example sentences of "have [verb] [adv prt] for a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The practical tasks a carer has to carry out for a dementia sufferer are not necessarily , of course , the hardest part of care . |
| 2 | Understandably , this presumption has come in for a great deal of criticism . |
| 3 | However , the Green Paper has come in for a variety of criticisms and there is little evidence that its recommendations will be acted upon in the short- or medium-term . |
| 4 | JACQUES Delors has come in for a lot of flak for the collapse of the Gatt world trade talks . |
| 5 | The prince has come in for a lot of criticism from the UN and the West for spending most of the past few months in China . |
| 6 | While it has come in for a certain amount of criticism , it has also attracted much praise , especially from industry . |
| 7 | Pam has come down for a day of shopping , bringing along our adopted younger sister Kath . |
| 8 | Take this tiny sample : Leopold Bloom , the Dublin Jew , with his touching mixture of timorousness and courage , has looked in for a few moments at a church as a Mass is ending . |
| 9 | Meanwhile , West Ham defender Julian Dicks has revved up for a big-match return tonight — thanks to a £10,000 Harley Davidson . |
| 10 | ‘ What has made it particularly difficult , for manufacturers of all sizes , but most of all for smaller ones , is that it has gone on for a long time . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Bob did not retire immediately as he has worked on for a few months to introduced new salesmen to their areas . |
| 13 | A forty year old airliner that seats just fourteen passengers has taken off for a new lease of life in Australia . |
| 14 | Microsoft 's Windows NT group has signed up for a 20ft by 20ft booth , claiming it does n't have the budget for a bigger space . |
| 15 | Reed has signed up for a further period of seven years to publish the back list of John Steinbeck , after submitting a lavish brochure of marketing plans to the estate . |
| 16 | Does any hon. Member seriously think that , after Britain has signed up for a single currency , we could go to war on our own and expect the 11 countries who share the same currency to stand idly by and see the value of their currency wrecked , for ever depreciating , just because Britain was in one of its periodic warmongering fits ? |
| 17 | West Indian pace bowler Ken McLeod has signed up for a second stint at Synthonia after being absent from the league for three years . |
| 18 | Cleveland Ambulance NHS Trust has signed up for a Department of Health initiative which encourages healthy living for all staff . |
| 19 | They 'd laid in for a siege with dozens of eggs , cans of luncheon meat , and tea . |
| 20 | Then they 'd gone in for a look . |
| 21 | She wondered if the others were playing a joke on her : perhaps they 'd gone out for a walk ; perhaps , at this very moment , they were laughing at the thought of her waiting for a killer who would never come . |
| 22 | I had this octopus once in Germany and it , we 'd gone out for a meal and I was gon na have steak and mushrooms and |
| 23 | I married Melanie , if I 'm honest , because she was the only one who 'd held out for a wedding-ring . ’ |
| 24 | This can be so even where you have not had to shop around for a more favourable report . |
| 25 | I 'd say we 'll have to do more than that , I 'd say we 'll have to go down for a week . |
| 26 | yeah so I mean he said we 're gon na have to go out for a drink and sit down and discuss it , you know |
| 27 | it 's no good I 'm gon na have to go out for a breath of fresh air . |
| 28 | Because when you do run across the road , you get to the other side , and you 're thinking , good gracious , that was a close shave , I 'll have to sit down for a minute , I think I 'll have a cup of coffee or something . |
| 29 | The more expressive the language , the more possible states can be described in it ; and hence , the larger will be the space of states that a solver may have to search through for a goal . |
| 30 | I was expecting you , of course , but I must have dropped off for a few minutes . ’ |