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

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1 The paths of two lives , or three to be exact , came together for a little while and then separated .
2 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 .
3 It was on this trip that a remarkable partnership came together for the first time .
4 Four of the five protagonists of this story — Greco-Macedonians , Romans , Jews and Celts — came together for the first time in the Hellenistic period .
5 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 .
6 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 .
7 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 .
8 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 .
9 She came across for the first time today , I was out egg yard getting some eggs
10 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 .
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