Example sentences of "[adv] come for " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've only come for the afternoon because Sheila 's off sick . |
| 2 | As it turned out , he only came for the funeral . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ I only came for a glass of water . |
| 4 | But the pastor only came for one service every two weeks even then , in the war . ’ |
| 5 | Yeah , oh cos that 's when she said Frank , Frank only came for a short while or something ? |
| 6 | What , what people had , had Tuesday , Wednesday , Thursday and they perhaps came for their order on the , or their weekend joint on the Friday and I 'd make the whole ticket up and they 'd pay and then that ticket would be torn off and if they wanted that meat delivered on the Saturday , that would be delivered with that ticket on the top . |
| 7 | They 're only coming for eleven weeks , and that of course starting in June , take some holidays , and |
| 8 | Bearing in mind that if we do have the whole house then people are only coming for a few days or or even one night could no they had somewhere to stay . |
| 9 | he 's only coming for an hour . |
| 10 | He is tall and cold and sometimes he does n't only come for pigs he comes for greedy little girls who make pigs of themselves , with too many sweets ! ’ |
| 11 | So at that time , the midwife would only come for a a quite a small proportion of the time then ? |
| 12 | And then there 's other people that can do it , but , you know , people only come for like every couple |
| 13 | Perhaps come for the first time . |
| 14 | ‘ I 've just come for the skirt your mum 's fixed for me , ’ she said . |
| 15 | I do very much hope that I can persuade those of you who have just come for communion , to join with us regularly at this service in the weeks that lie ahead . |
| 16 | ‘ We just came for five years … ’ : writings about young life in Jamaica and adult life in England . |
| 17 | He just came for the money every day . |
| 18 | As for me — well — I 'm just coming for the ride . ’ |
| 19 | Are they finally coming for you , Minch ? ’ |
| 20 | I 'd just come for the wedding . |
| 21 | So saying , when my wife Catherine died of cancer , Anthea sent me persistent invitations to spend a few days at her cottage , or even just come for a meal . |
| 22 | He says there are lots of tourists and it 's a shame they just come for that . |
| 23 | The conversation ended the official programme of the Leeds Congress , but there was more to come for a party of about forty participants , including the President and Professor Kerney and his wife , for whom an excursion into Wensleydale by train and horse drawn wagonettes had been organised . |
| 24 | I mean the vicar usually comes for the pancake race does n't he ? |
| 25 | Parr 's probably coming for a business deal with my daddy and feels the need to have a grip of me , the usual thing , that 's all . |
| 26 | CARNIVAL organiser Tex Flint said : ‘ Floats come from all over the country to take part in the festivities , but sadly some criminals also come for their own reasons . ’ |
| 27 | Back at Wotton-under-Edge in Gloucestershire the Congregational Tabernacle 's Mutual Improvement Society resolved in November 1893 ‘ that the time has now come for an Organ to be obtained for the Tabernacle Services ’ . |
| 28 | Labour leader John Smith bluntly told the Commons : ‘ The time has now come for effective international action . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ The time has now come for me to act and sort out some of the players . |
| 30 | Perhaps the time has now come for specialist monographs . |