If you should do that, you would come in for severe criticism.

Would you like to come in for an interview next week?

I'll come in for a nice profit if land values continue to rise.

And again, upon taking a share and the management of this business, another infected collection fell to my lot, so that I have been doing earnest battle with this disease since its first appearance amongst us, and I must confess that, up to a very short time back, I had come in for a great deal the worst of the fight, although I had made use of every agent I could imagine as being likely to aid me, and all that many competent friends could suggest.


My dear boy, you come in for all the good things; what have you done to deserve them?

Time they were stopping up in the City Arms pisser Burke told me there was an old one there with a cracked loodheramaun of a nephew and Bloom trying to get the soft side of her doing the mollycoddle playing bézique to come in for a bit of the wampum in her will and not eating meat of a Friday because the old one was always thumping her craw and taking the lout out for a walk.

Presently, when I had had my fill of weeping and writhing upon the ground, the old man of the sea said, 'Son of Atreus, do not waste any more time in crying so bitterly; it can do no manner of good; find your way home as fast as ever you can, for Aegisthus may be still alive, and even though Orestes has been beforehand with you in killing him, you may yet come in for his funeral.

" That is, writes Kurtz, there's more to the story than appears in the Clintonic version: namely, Garvey ignored a doctor's advice to come in for blood tests and instead went on vacation in Hawaii, where the local hospital did not perform bone marrow transplants.

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The Hispanic agents often come in for special pleading in Spanish and failing that, special abuse, from those they detain.

” Fairy tales have also come in for their share of Niceness.

[ 52 ] In addition, the annual visit rate could potentially be overestimated in the HMO population if an influx of new patients and a "new enrollee" effect were to cause more patients to come in for visits than otherwise would.

Perfection has come in for a lot of bad press recently.

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