Example sentences of "came [adv] for [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 He came on for the injured Mumby and headed in a perfect Measham cross to score his first goal for the club .
2 The plane came down for a smooth landing amid the radar gear .
3 So Morag when she came down , came down for the whole week .
4 The paths of two lives , or three to be exact , came together for a little while and then separated .
5 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 .
6 After four weeks every group had interviewed four of the original subjects , plus others who came in for a single session , and they had all accumulated a great amount of material .
7 This meant that the married women left at home came in for a large share of the work about the croft .
8 Here and elsewhere , the police also came in for a fair amount of criticism — Punch portrayed London 's genial giants Gog and Magog dressed as policeman , defending themselves from the wrath of the respectable populace — and there were perfectly sound reasons for such discontent .
9 Specifically , in the case of Anthony Miers , the Royal Navy submariner who finally came in for a teeny bit of criticism over his methods of disposing of German seamen who rather inconveniently surrendered .
10 He went out and Sisteradmission-ward came in for a short while , and we reconstructed the story .
11 I came over for a short visit when my parents first moved here … ’
12 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 .
13 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 .
14 They all just came back for a regular routine follow up , just a little bit late .
15 ‘ An alternative theory is that the killer knocked him out first , then went into the washroom to strip and came back for the final throat-cutting before Berowne had a chance to come round .
16 Juul was undefeated by an opponent in his four scheduled rides although in heat 13 when he came out for an extra race he was disqualified for unfair riding when bringing down Donny Odom and Steve Regeling .
17 She did that for half an hour and he only came round for a short time .
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