Example sentences of "come [adv prt] for a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While it has come in for a certain amount of criticism , it has also attracted much praise , especially from industry . |
| 2 | Understandably , this presumption has come in for a great deal of criticism . |
| 3 | and erm I used to do erm , keep a check on the flying times of the planes cos every forty hours they had to come in for a different check . |
| 4 | He never wrote entirely admiring reviews : ‘ It 's the essence of a book never to be perfect , ’ he said , ‘ so its writer must expect to come in for a little criticism . ’ |
| 5 | We used to come in for a fair amount of ribbing and good-natured chaff , and remarks like , Was it a red sky this morning ? |
| 6 | If I may broaden it away from erm the Cardinal Newman School and think probably of a lot of East Sussex Comprehensive Schools , I think we have all been , in the schools , in the last few years , working hard to establish this openness , and I think that the closed concept of the school , the school that locks children out at break or locks children out at dinner time , which only allows parents to come in for a phoney Open Day when there are a few children there , they are things largely , I think , of the past and they are the closed society . |
| 7 | It also seemed , from the feathers on the kitchen floor , that one of the pigeons had come down for a warm and had got too close . |
| 8 | Sixty miles they used to come over for a good evening at those and maybe two principles |
| 9 | I think she 's probably just come out for a quick stroll , we wo n't spend our time over that at the moment , hello |
| 10 | The plane came down for a smooth landing amid the radar gear . |
| 11 | The eight men , from St John 's College , came in for a severe dressing down from the police after they bared all on a two-mile row down the River Isis . |
| 12 | After four weeks every group had interviewed four of the original subjects , plus others who came in for a single session , and they had all accumulated a great amount of material . |
| 13 | This meant that the married women left at home came in for a large share of the work about the croft . |
| 14 | Here and elsewhere , the police also came in for a fair amount of criticism — Punch portrayed London 's genial giants Gog and Magog dressed as policeman , defending themselves from the wrath of the respectable populace — and there were perfectly sound reasons for such discontent . |
| 15 | Specifically , in the case of Anthony Miers , the Royal Navy submariner who finally came in for a teeny bit of criticism over his methods of disposing of German seamen who rather inconveniently surrendered . |
| 16 | He went out and Sisteradmission-ward came in for a short while , and we reconstructed the story . |
| 17 | I came over for a short visit when my parents first moved here … ’ |
| 18 | They all just came back for a regular routine follow up , just a little bit late . |
| 19 | She did that for half an hour and he only came round for a short time . |
| 20 | Not because she could n't lose weight but because she enjoyed coming along for a weekly work-out session and it helped to keep her weight in check . |
| 21 | Still , I should be coming in for a tidy sum of compensation . |
| 22 | Raimondo , the designer , was frantic ; an oil-rich sheikh was coming in for a private showing with his wives . |
| 23 | The gayer , shorter girls would come on for a general dance to the Gavotte . |
| 24 | ‘ You can come down for a nice sit in me kitchen , ’ said Mrs Beavis . |
| 25 | ‘ Well , I 'll come along for a little while to the bonfire , but do n't accept for me later . |
| 26 | so I thought you were going to cos you did n't come back for a long time . |
| 27 | Gladys wo n't ever come back for a little girl will it ? |
| 28 | May we , er , come in for a little while ? ’ |
| 29 | Like those boys that come in for a single rose as if nobody 's ever done that before . |
| 30 | British Rail comes in for a fair bit of stick from travellers who would heartily support the loud speaker announcement heard by Philip White . |