Example sentences of "have [adv] [vb pp] in [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Typically , Gedge has since gone in for his usual strict self-criticism . |
| 2 | The madman has just flown in from Rome on a whim , to spend a few days with me here . |
| 3 | ‘ This report has just come in from the Environments Officer . |
| 4 | The show is hip and happening , dude : the audience looks as if it has just walked in off the King 's Road , the post-modernish set is ultra-cool , the show 's titles are dazzling , the best I 've seen on British television . |
| 5 | And his friend Rachel ( ‘ She 's a singer ’ ) has just dropped in with some presents from her mom , and the bluesman tells us his old voice is starting to go , and our audience is finished . |
| 6 | The arts community has always gone in for manic attention-seeking , of course — the oxygen of publicity ( to borrow a phrase ) being crucial to its survival . |
| 7 | The free edge of the epidermis has clearly moved in over the marked wound mesenchyme , leaving less than 10% of it exposed by this stage . |
| 8 | Mr Gonzalez has also come in for criticism from within his own party . |
| 9 | Mr Gonzalez has also come in for criticism from within his own party . |
| 10 | They were all sitting there staring at me and Monsieur de Levantiére said , ‘ This is Constance , who has kindly stepped in at the last moment . ’ |
| 11 | None of the European resorts has yet gone in for the wholesale investment in snow-making which we see in the United States , mainly because the capital outlay is enormous and the running costs extremely high . |
| 12 | ‘ Diana is an Uptown girl who has never gone in for downtown men , ’ observes Rory Scott . |
| 13 | And I 'd just got in at about oh half three . |
| 14 | She 'd just walked in to the nearest doorway and spilled the whole thing to a complete stranger . |
| 15 | The commodore , having just tacked in from Pin Mill , says that while he recognises the accomplishment of an ancient mariner there in teaching a grey parrot to recite the complete works of Shakespeare in Urdu , and could see that this might help international relations in some way , he is far from certain this was the sort of thing Mr Major had in mind . |
| 16 | Apart from that , though , the whole crew might have just come in from Ellis Island Caduta herself was clearly the queen bee here . |
| 17 | SHe had eventually given in to a desire to seek Tammuz out , even though SHe already recognised the signs which meant he wanted to be left alone . |
| 18 | I 've only popped in for a few minutes . |
| 19 | We are concerned in fact that er the western nations did n't rather deplore earlier er Hussein 's actions against his own people using chemical weapons , and we think it 's a shame for us that we 've only come in at this point , and we must come in carefully I think . |
| 20 | They had all squeezed in behind the driver for the run to Canterbury , where there was a Jaguar agent . |
| 21 | Diana seemed distressed , rushing around in a distracted way — oblivious , it seemed to me , of the work we had all put in for her brother 's wedding . |
| 22 | We 've already seen how carefully planned customer flow can encourage the shopper to leave with a loaded basket when she had only popped in for a loaf of bread or a pint of milk . |
| 23 | ‘ We knew the water was dangerous and had only gone in to our knees . |
| 24 | It had suddenly borne in upon her that it was almost midnight and that she was in a strange flat in a strange city , with a strange man who was plying her with champagne . |
| 25 | He did not take his readers back into history so much as bring Thomas Paine , William Hazlitt , Sir Arthur Conan Doyle , Sir Walter Scott [ qq.v. ] , and others forward , as if they had suddenly walked in from the street . |
| 26 | He was lonely and broke and had already barged in for the loan of a cupful of Quaker oats . |
| 27 | They 've just come in for ninety three . |
| 28 | A game of tag ( see below ) may well be just the thing ; but if they 've just come in from the playground and that 's what they 've been doing for the last fifteen minutes , it would be a bit of a waste of time . |
| 29 | Having prohibited party politics on the grounds that it fostered corruption , patronage and tribalism , Rawlings had finally given in to domestic and international pressure for a return to multiparty politics . |
| 30 | She and Mandy had finally got in from last night 's fiasco around four in the morning . |