Example sentences of "to come [adv prt] for [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . ’ |
| 3 | 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 ? |
| 4 | She said politely , ‘ Would you like to come in for a last drink ? ’ |
| 5 | He was recently fined £500 by the European Tour when , after a first round of 74 in his defence of the Mediterranean Open , he refused to come in for the requested press interview . |
| 6 | " Ask Dr. Lorrimer to come down for a few minutes , will you please ? " |
| 7 | I ask him to come down for a few days and I also invite Lady De Marr . |
| 8 | Sixty miles they used to come over for a good evening at those and maybe two principles |
| 9 | Before returning to England he was asked to persuade Gladstone to come over for the 1878 Yale ‘ commencement ’ but he would plead in vain . |
| 10 | Used to come up for the odd break . |
| 11 | 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 ? |
| 12 | the idea was there and the structure and everything was there it was just that you had n't actually explained what you had to do first , you know , to come back with the erm recommendations erm but you did , you did get the date confirmed to come back for the second appointment which was good . |