Example sentences of "has [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 .
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