Example sentences of "come [adv] for [art] [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 She said politely , ‘ Would you like to come in for a last drink ? ’
2 Forest , held to a 1-1 draw at the City Ground , were 3-1 ahead with 17 minutes of normal time left , and deservedly so ; they had come out for the second half bristling with determination to make quality tell .
3 Should n't we be opening our universities to older people , for people to come back for a second dose as it were , for retraining and so on ?
4 the idea was there and the structure and everything was there it was just that you had n't actually explained what you had to do first , you know , to come back with the erm recommendations erm but you did , you did get the date confirmed to come back for the second appointment which was good .
5 Sterland came on for the last half-hour of this week 's 3-0 reserve team win over Manchester City at Maine Road , and yesterday declared : ‘ It went brilliantly .
6 As the curtain came down for the fourth time the ‘ helpers ’ all gave a huge sigh and reverted back to responsible adults !
7 It was on this trip that a remarkable partnership came together for the first time .
8 Four of the five protagonists of this story — Greco-Macedonians , Romans , Jews and Celts — came together for the first time in the Hellenistic period .
9 Lio ! rt came in for a second run , but slower this time to allow for the big man 's unexpected agility .
10 When she came in for the second time her throat was like looking at a plate full of strawberries and cream — red enlarged tonsils with a coating of puss .
11 ‘ Greed came in for the first time .
12 The next report came in for the 3rd goal , and again said ‘ Leeds are beginning to get back into the match , but Norwich have scored a 3rd ’ … all other reports/comments just mention the goals .
13 Susan came downstairs for the first time on Christmas Eve , and was genuinely delighted to see how pretty Breeze had made the sombre old dining-room .
14 The parents of the kids at the school where Mrs Rogers taught had her barred from the school , in case the hit squad came back for a second try .
15 When I was driving my new Granada in 1989 and dropped a friend down the road , a police car came past , saw the car with a black man driving it , circled round and came back for a second check .
16 Bordon came out for the second half in determined mood and soon Wilson made up for a number of misses by flicking in the third goal .
17 At about this time , the BBC offered him a World Service job based in London and , at the age of 30 , he came here for the first time .
18 So we came about for the last time , since we were now south of the entrance , and motorsailed north , a little further off , to give the rock a good clearance .
19 She came across for the first time today , I was out egg yard getting some eggs
20 And another good old word is the crome , now er that was one I came across for the first time when I came into Suffolk , the crome .
21 The first attempt was almost a disaster , but he got the plane up again and came round for a second shot .
22 Trying to mould together a side in only four days with eight players coming together for the first time is a pretty difficult task .
23 Brian Cox , who runs the operation , says : ‘ Anyone coming in for the first time is going to start by taking on what 's already there .
24 In early July the waiting was broken by the excitement of Maggie coming home for the first time since she had left for London .
25 His father had been ‘ under the weather , since July , and Lewis was half-aware that he might be coming home for the last time .
26 In due course ( usually about the end of January ) such Bills will come up for a second reading , i.e. they will appear again on the order paper for consideration during private business , the first item on the Houses ' agenda after prayers , usually 2.35 to 2.40 or 2.45 p.m .
27 ‘ I never seen anybody come back for a second dose of the blue , ’ said a man behind her , for all the world as though he were safe reminiscing in some bar of his old age .
28 Gazza did not even come out for the second half — he had proved all he needed to prove to any disbelievers still out there .
29 AN ERA ends today when the shutters come down for the last time at the Owen Owen store in Liverpool .
30 You go to the most wonderful places , you STAND in Soweto outside Nelson Mandela 's little house and watch him come home for the first time in 25 years .
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