Example sentences of "came for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was polite , she gave me a small box of chocolates with a thank-you card and kissed me and shook my hand when she came for a meal on Sunday . |
| 2 | ‘ I came for a month . |
| 3 | Whether a visitor came for a particular story or whether the old woman had one in mind she wanted to relate , the preliminaries were the same : she entered into a state approaching that of a trance . |
| 4 | Many enthusiasts came for a last look and as each week passed there was a little less of the Woodhead line to photograph . |
| 5 | We saw a class of very able children , with minimal impairment , who came for a P.E./music and movement session . |
| 6 | And when Julie , also 30 , came for a visit — leaving husband Tim , 32 , to look after 22-month-old Sophie back home in Northampton — Elizabeth was longing to introduce her friend to the beauties of Sodwana Bay . |
| 7 | The same came for a witness , to bear witness of the Light , that all men through him might believe . |
| 8 | Hunt 's steadily deflating tyre held up until the last corner before the pits ; in he came for a tyre change . |
| 9 | Of the students in my time , one has since become an archbishop , John Aung Hla ; another , John Maung Pe became the first bishop of Akyab , and another who came for a short term of study and an even shorter curacy was John Richardson , the saintly schoolteacher , catechist , priest and bishop in turn of Car Nicobar , where under his influence the whole of the island population , including witch doctors , became Christian . |
| 10 | They came for a draw and got it . |
| 11 | Certainly those who came for a meal with Dorothy Mellings — while Alice was there , with Jasper — tended to come in ones or twos , mostly women , perhaps needing Dorothy 's advice , or even to borrow money ; divorced friends — so many of the couples that had been to the Mellings 's in the good days had split up . |
| 12 | ‘ They came for a weekend just before we left Starlings . ’ |
| 13 | Viv Richards , who came for a quiet life , is left privately shaking his head and wondering whether there will ever be a perfect world — and a county side blissfully , permanently free from controversy . |
| 14 | ‘ I only came for a glass of water . |
| 15 | She came for a visit with her favourite slimming magazine . |
| 16 | ‘ I really came for a word with Miss Passmore , but if she does n't mind you hearing what I have to say … ’ |
| 17 | In March the threshing-machine came for a day to Flintcomb-Ash . |
| 18 | When Glen Baxter came for a signing session , we sold 80 copies of his book — a modest number perhaps for a shop of this size , but sales of his ‘ spin-off ’ goods amounted to a further 40% of the shop 's turnover that day and brought us some 16% over our sales target for that week . |
| 19 | ‘ I came for a drink — if that 's all right . ’ |
| 20 | Mike Burton says he came for a trial touched the ball 3 times and scored 3 tries . |
| 21 | Yeah , oh cos that 's when she said Frank , Frank only came for a short while or something ? |
| 22 | Well he he 'd got a , and if I 'd got to do it you know , another day , his er perhaps start and er i , well you know when he came for a meal and saw all that ? |
| 23 | I mean he came for a flying visit and he went back did n't he ? he came for a flying visit and went back |
| 24 | I mean he came for a flying visit and he went back did n't he ? he came for a flying visit and went back |
| 25 | I remember well , during the air-raids of the forties when I was in London and we waited as darkness came for the first sirens and the deep breath to get one 's courage up , that we felt we were part of the will of the capital of England . |
| 26 | And when the time came for the A 's big bats to show their muscle , they froze like rabbits in the spotlight of Orel Hershiser 's fastball . |
| 27 | Erika knew the words of a Protestant pastor , himself tortured and executed by the Gestapo : ‘ First they came for the Jews — and we said nothing . |
| 28 | Then they came for the Communists — and we said nothing . |
| 29 | Then they came for the Socialists — and we said nothing . |
| 30 | Then they came for the Trades Unionists — and we said nothing . |