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 | She said politely , ‘ Would you like to come in for a last drink ? ’ |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | I ask him to come down for a few days and I also invite Lady De Marr . |
| 10 | " Ask Dr. Lorrimer to come down for a few minutes , will you please ? " |
| 11 | Sixty miles they used to come over for a good evening at those and maybe two principles |
| 12 | 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 |
| 13 | Should n't we be opening our universities to older people , for people to come back for a second dose as it were , for retraining and so on ? |
| 14 | The plane came down for a smooth landing amid the radar gear . |
| 15 | Lio ! rt came in for a second run , but slower this time to allow for the big man 's unexpected agility . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | This meant that the married women left at home came in for a large share of the work about the croft . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | He went out and Sisteradmission-ward came in for a short while , and we reconstructed the story . |
| 22 | Our son Greg came over for a few days to do some business in England and to see his father . |
| 23 | I came over for a short visit when my parents first moved here … ’ |
| 24 | He came up for a few days and stayed in Mackay 's Hotel in Ardallt . |
| 25 | The sun came up for a half an hour , but it was too cold : -46° Centigrade . |
| 26 | They all just came back for a regular routine follow up , just a little bit late . |
| 27 | When I was driving my new Granada in 1989 and dropped a friend down the road , a police car came past , saw the car with a black man driving it , circled round and came back for a second check . |
| 28 | The parents of the kids at the school where Mrs Rogers taught had her barred from the school , in case the hit squad came back for a second try . |
| 29 | The first attempt was almost a disaster , but he got the plane up again and came round for a second shot . |
| 30 | She did that for half an hour and he only came round for a short time . |