Example sentences of "[vb past] come [to-vb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is a stretch of coast that 30-year-old Elizabeth , from St Albans , Herts , working in Durban , had come to love for its wildlife . |
| 2 | And if the stranger had come to ask for his two pounds back , my sister would gladly have given it to him . |
| 3 | Sam said , ‘ Morning , ’ but Camille glanced at him haughtily and looked away : she considered that she had no time for the working classes , although her mother 's best friend had been brought up here in the olden days before the supermarkets and the middle class had come to compete for space . |
| 4 | But its possession , the sight and weight of it on her key ring , had come to symbolize for her the certainty and the trust of their friendship . |
| 5 | The Madame lived to the age of 90. when she died , some time in the 1970s , the hotel was left to Abdulrahim , a Nubian from Aswan who had come to work for the Madame as a young boy before the Second World War . |