Example sentences of "come [adv] for [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She said : ‘ Try and persuade him to come home for a special tea . |
| 2 | The paths of two lives , or three to be exact , came together for a little while and then separated . |
| 3 | Some thirty graduates of the degree came together for an excellent meal in University House , followed by an informal update from one of the joint organisers of the reunion , Keith Moffitt , on the whereabouts of those who had been unable to attend . |
| 4 | It was on this trip that a remarkable partnership came together for the first time . |
| 5 | Four of the five protagonists of this story — Greco-Macedonians , Romans , Jews and Celts — came together for the first time in the Hellenistic period . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Ironically , the protest had nothing to do with the South Africans who were as warmly received as they had been in Jamaica and Trinidad , greeted and feted by the government and watched by Prime Ministers Erskine Sandiford of Barbados and P.J. Patterson of Jamaica who came specially for the historic occasion , the first Test ever played between teams previously kept apart by the ideology of racial superiority . |
| 8 | At the end of September Violet came home for a long weekend and Perdita was so bloody-minded that in despair Daisy escaped to Harvest Festival for an hour of peace . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | She came across for the first time today , I was out egg yard getting some eggs |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Trying to mould together a side in only four days with eight players coming together for the first time is a pretty difficult task . |
| 13 | In early July the waiting was broken by the excitement of Maggie coming home for the first time since she had left for London . |
| 14 | His father had been ‘ under the weather , since July , and Lewis was half-aware that he might be coming home for the last time . |
| 15 | ‘ I would seriously think about coming here for a longer stay if the right opportunity arose , but I do have a lot going for me back home , ’ said Lloyd , who spent his early years in Epping . |
| 16 | They were told a carefully graduated series of lies : first that their mother was staying in hospital for a while , then that she might not come home for a long time , and finally that she might never come back . |
| 17 | Our lawyer took the idea to the court , and the judge altered the terms of Rickie 's bail to let him come here for a therapeutic cruise . |
| 18 | ‘ I did n't come here for a boozy evening . ’ |
| 19 | Erm I I look forward to hearing Mr 's views on on this particular matter given that he was the or or the department was was responsible for for in a sense prolonging the discussion to consider the breakdown of locations and as to whether he feels that there is sufficient technical information available on all of the sectors should a recommendation come forward for a particular sector from from the panel . |
| 20 | Groups come together for a specific reason and this reason should run like a thread through the liturgy as well as linking it to the whole community of the Church . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | He said : ‘ People come here for a good night out , the restaurant is always busy and we are opening a new betting shop at the track where punters will be able to place bets tax free . |
| 23 | We will help those that we have to help legally , or perhaps those whom people want to help , but we will not have foisted upon us those who come here for a good time and a good life . |
| 24 | Nowadays my grandchildren come here for the same family festival . |