Example sentences of "[adv] come for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He is tall and cold and sometimes he does n't only come for pigs he comes for greedy little girls who make pigs of themselves , with too many sweets ! ’ |
| 2 | ‘ We 've not come for lunch today . |
| 3 | The headmaster said , with a smile , ‘ Why not come for assembly ? |
| 4 | I do very much hope that I can persuade those of you who have just come for communion , to join with us regularly at this service in the weeks that lie ahead . |
| 5 | Esau does not come for revenge , but out of love . |
| 6 | ‘ Your bus may not come for ages . |
| 7 | The time had now come for Eric to go up into the Apennines on behalf of the Commission to pay and honour all those Italians , for the most part peasants , who had helped and in many cases saved the lives of escaping prisoners-of-war . |
| 8 | Perhaps the time has now come for specialist monographs . |
| 9 | Will he accept that in the United States of America , the land of free enterprise , it was concluded that voluntary arrangements would never sufficiently overcome discrimination against employment and will he respond positively to the view of the employers forum on disability and the law society as well as three hundred and eleven honourable members of this house who have signed E D M number two that the time has now come for legislation to ban discrimination against in er disabled people in respect of employment in this country . |
| 10 | The farmers knew this ; and they 'd often come for advice : ‘ Owd Todd is going to sell one of his horses — Champion , d' you know him ? |
| 11 | SIR — Following the death of Michael Lees , who remained a stalwart supporter of the royalist cause in Yugoslavia ( obituary , March 26 ) , the time has surely come for Britain to make an official admission of Churchill 's grievous error in switching our support from the royalist leader Mihailovich to Tito in 1943 . |
| 12 | You did n't come for love of me , anyway . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ I did n't come for coffee . |
| 14 | … the ‘ brake shop ’ , into which coaches are continually coming for repair . |