Example sentences of "came [adv prt] for a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The plane came down for a smooth landing amid the radar gear . |
| 2 | Lio ! rt came in for a second run , but slower this time to allow for the big man 's unexpected agility . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | This meant that the married women left at home came in for a large share of the work about the croft . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | He went out and Sisteradmission-ward came in for a short while , and we reconstructed the story . |
| 8 | Our son Greg came over for a few days to do some business in England and to see his father . |
| 9 | I came over for a short visit when my parents first moved here … ’ |
| 10 | He came up for a few days and stayed in Mackay 's Hotel in Ardallt . |
| 11 | They all just came back for a regular routine follow up , just a little bit late . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The first attempt was almost a disaster , but he got the plane up again and came round for a second shot . |
| 15 | She did that for half an hour and he only came round for a short time . |