Example sentences of "[vb past] come [adv prt] for [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 His widow said yesterday : ‘ Money started coming in for a Denholm Elliott Project without me appealing for it and we already have several thousand pounds from British donations as well as £5,000 from Ibiza , where we lived .
2 She offered to come down for the weekend to help , and Carolyn wanted her badly enough to hesitate before putting her off .
3 We were in Glasgow last weekend , and were quite chuffed when Ewan consented to come out for a walk just with us two , as he clings to Joyce a bit at the moment .
4 They toasted Keith and me ( Keith had come up for the day to join in ) and bought us a slow cooker for our new home .
5 He had come in for a book of stamps , and when he had got it he joined Breeze , who was waiting on the Green .
6 If the literary establishment had thought to compare notes they would have realized that every male aura on and off Fleet Street had come in for a bashing .
7 It had come in for the attack .
8 Toby had come back for the moment .
9 Now , as they left the shuttle lounge at Heathrow , mixed in with the commuters and shoppers who had come down for the day , Adam saw the tail .
10 The smile had come out for the landlord , and disappeared when he had left the room .
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