Example sentences of "come [adv] for the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was on this trip that a remarkable partnership came together for the first time . |
| 2 | Four of the five protagonists of this story — Greco-Macedonians , Romans , Jews and Celts — came together for the first time in the Hellenistic period . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Well , I came home for the 1986 Turnberry Open expecting to caddie for Mac O'Grady but that did n't materialize , so Nick and I joined up in July 1986 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | She came across for the first time today , I was out egg yard getting some eggs |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Trying to mould together a side in only four days with eight players coming together for the first time is a pretty difficult task . |
| 10 | In early July the waiting was broken by the excitement of Maggie coming home for the first time since she had left for London . |
| 11 | His father had been ‘ under the weather , since July , and Lewis was half-aware that he might be coming home for the last time . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Nowadays my grandchildren come here for the same family festival . |