Example sentences of "to come [adv prt] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At £17.50 a ticket , I expected the band to come on for a bit longer or were they all dashing off to see Lady Chatterley too ? |
| 2 | ‘ And — ah — I shall be in my study , and delighted to meet any of you , should you care to come along for a chat , ’ said the headmaster , very much as an afterthought , and clearly hoping they would n't . |
| 3 | 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 . ’ |
| 4 | If you 'd care to come in for a cup of tea , now that you 've got out and everything , you 'd be most welcome . |
| 5 | 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 ? |
| 6 | In their early twenties they had a group called the Actors and RCA records asked them to come in for a meeting . |
| 7 | She said politely , ‘ Would you like to come in for a last drink ? ’ |
| 8 | Want to come in for a minute ? " |
| 9 | She had asked Elizabeth and Dr Wyn to come in for a drink that evening . |
| 10 | ‘ Would you like to come in for a … cup of coffee or something ? ’ |
| 11 | Unable to come in for a presentation , Archie was visited at home to be given a retirement gift from the company and one from his colleagues . |
| 12 | He used to come in for a couple of drinks . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Hello er , I 'm phoning on behalf of Mrs Ada er she 's got to come in for a scan on the fourth of February , nine o'clock , now we 've only just got back from the hospital today , cos she oh , she had to go today for one , yeah , and we 've just |
| 15 | If I may broaden it away from erm the Cardinal Newman School and think probably of a lot of East Sussex Comprehensive Schools , I think we have all been , in the schools , in the last few years , working hard to establish this openness , and I think that the closed concept of the school , the school that locks children out at break or locks children out at dinner time , which only allows parents to come in for a phoney Open Day when there are a few children there , they are things largely , I think , of the past and they are the closed society . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | I wo n't wait for the card , for the bill to come in for the card . |
| 18 | All right then well thank you Simon that 's a broad thank you and and thank you very much for your money as well a hundred and fifty quid he gave that 's loads of dosh er to come in for the day as well and I 'm going to take you out for a a nice lunch in a bit when he can wonder around have a poke around everywhere this afternoon too so should be all right should n't it that ? |
| 19 | I ask him to come down for a few days and I also invite Lady De Marr . |
| 20 | " Ask Dr. Lorrimer to come down for a few minutes , will you please ? " |
| 21 | and go out and that , if you want to come down for a couple of days . |
| 22 | Ring her up , see if she wants to come down for a drink . |
| 23 | ‘ Tell you what , see if you can persuade him to come down for an X-ray . |
| 24 | She offered to come down for the weekend to help , and Carolyn wanted her badly enough to hesitate before putting her off . |
| 25 | There are a few of us ( 3 at mo — myself , a mate and Steve Walsh ) who want to come down for the Oxford match from Durham/Newcastle . |
| 26 | Sixty miles they used to come over for a good evening at those and maybe two principles |
| 27 | ‘ I 'm always on the lookout for players who will benefit Derry City and Ian has agreed to come over for a month initially , ’ said Coyle . |
| 28 | ‘ I 'm always on the lookout for players who will benefit Derry City and Ian has agreed to come over for a month initially , ’ said Coyle . |
| 29 | Before returning to England he was asked to persuade Gladstone to come over for the 1878 Yale ‘ commencement ’ but he would plead in vain . |
| 30 | They used to come over for the spud-picking and go to Ormskirk and live in a bothy and would come to Scotland Place because there were so many wakes . |