Example sentences of "to come [adv] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Balbinder was always pleased to come along for these sessions , to play with my children 's toys and run in the garden . |
| 2 | Bloke supposed to come in for new business pitch will have got there by now . |
| 3 | ‘ Well , that 's the first thing we have to make him see , then we need to get him to come in for regular counselling sessions . ’ |
| 4 | " Now , I asked you to come over for several reasons . |
| 5 | and all she can think of to say is ( and here he mimicked a heavy filmstar accent which actually was nothing like the actress in the film at all , because the woman in the film is an ordinary , decent , hardworking woman ) , ‘ Oh dahlink , I 'ave missed you so much , ’ and then the first thing she does after waiting for him to come home for seven fucking years is to leave the fucking gas on while she 's making his coffee , and then of course she 's so tense that she just ca n't wait for a fag , she lights up , there you go ; bang . |
| 6 | he 's waiting to come up for another load . |
| 7 | So up we 'd go and we 'd have to keep the crowd back and the object was to wait for Mary to come out for some more beer which was the pub across the road , and when she did , grab her . |
| 8 | Those thrills prompt you to come back for more but they 're often reinforced by a swirling hotch-potch of memories . |
| 9 | ‘ I think what I 'm asking for a pair of shoes is fair enough though I am keeping the prices low as an incentive for my customers to come back for more . ’ |
| 10 | Systemic poisons will not stop the bees from taking a building brick , but they will be feeling pretty queer by the time they want to come back for more . |
| 11 | The students quickly bonded themselves into a tight knit group and they fought , argued , demanded and were encouraged to come back for more . |
| 12 | But Carolyn , backed up by Phil Morris , hammered away at the point that furnishing fabrics were not like clothes , where customers did not expect to come back for more of the same . |
| 13 | He said as he stepped on the ‘ plane : ‘ I would love to come back for another season at Portadown — but no-one has said anything to me . |
| 14 | ‘ Forty-four per cent of the appointees are women — a very high figure for such posts — and their success should encourage even more to come forward for future appointments . ’ |