Example sentences of "[noun prp] come [adv prt] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | When agricultural improvers visited Sussex in the war years they had little favourable to say about the situation in general and the Weald came in for wholesale condemnation , although there was some disagreement about the details . |
| 2 | Bordon came out for the second half in determined mood and soon Wilson made up for a number of misses by flicking in the third goal . |
| 3 | Ken came in for coffee . |
| 4 | Wetherall came off for Batty . |
| 5 | Honestly , you 'd think it was Antony coming back for Cleopatra the way she 's carrying on ! ’ |
| 6 | Gerry Byrom and Mathew Doggert come in for Richard Scanlon and John Pierce . |
| 7 | ‘ Sarah came in for you . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ Adam Reed came on for the last half hour and did well for a 16-year-old . ’ |
| 9 | When Marcus came in for supper , two hours later , Daniel 's Mum was still talking , to Stephanie , who was in and out of the kitchen dishing up vegetables and making gravy , to her son , who moved his weight cautiously from time to time on a dining-room chair and frowned and frowned . |
| 10 | Kravchenko came in for fierce criticism at the seventh congress of the USSR Journalists ' Union held on Feb. 5-7 , over the return of political censorship of state television , as witnessed recently in the withdrawal of the Vzglyad documentary series and the return by the flagship news programme Vremya to official propaganda and exhortation . |
| 11 | ‘ Then Orient came in for me and I could not have been happier with the way things worked out . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ Jardin a Auvers ’ was the first major van Gogh to come up for sale since ‘ Portrait du Dr Gachet ’ , executed 3–5 June 1890 , broke all auction house records by fetching $82.5 million ( £43.1 million ) at Christie 's New York in May 1990 . |
| 13 | ‘ When Blackburn came in for me , they were well down the old Second Division , but I jumped at the chance . |
| 14 | Sterland came on for the last half-hour of this week 's 3-0 reserve team win over Manchester City at Maine Road , and yesterday declared : ‘ It went brilliantly . |
| 15 | Shane Warne , whose solitary wicket of the series had cost him 228 runs , was rested , while Tom Moody came in for the out-of-form Mark Waugh . |
| 16 | The IDA came in for attack the following day from residents ' associations in both Currabinny and Ringaskiddy . |
| 17 | Felipe had gone before Maggie came down for breakfast the next day . |
| 18 | Anne , what a lovely story , although it was n't very lovely , was it , when Aunty May came round for Christmas , and inflicted herself upon the whole family , with her own particular brand of misery ? |
| 19 | One day when Mr Seeders came in for his meal , he drank too much beer . |
| 20 | That was when Frank Gray came in for me . |
| 21 | The team was unchanged from Soton , except for Fairclough coming in for Newsome ( to counter Flo 's aerial threat ? ) |
| 22 | what 's Pete coming round for ? |
| 23 | Lloyds , Midland and NatWest came in for most criticism overall , while Abbey National , the Co-op Bank , FirstDirect , the Royal Bank of Scotland and the Yorkshire Bank came out best . |
| 24 | Lloyds , Midland and NatWest came in for most criticism overall , while Abbey National , the Co-op Bank , FirstDirect , the Royal Bank of Scotland and the Yorkshire Bank came out best for overall satisfaction . |
| 25 | He decided to throw caution to the wind before Selwyn came over for his tea . |
| 26 | Darren Jackson comes in for the suspended Mike Ford … |
| 27 | Yes Jane it has , as luck would have it I was late arriving , had to run through the rain , ran into the main stand and by pure accident ran into the Oxford United dressing room and there was Brian Horton , he said ‘ Hallo Mick , hows the poster Mickey ’ as he always does , and in fact he gave me the team news and that is — Ian Walker makes his senior debut tonight with both Alan injured , also two other changes ; Jackson comes in for Gary Smart and one surprising one , Steve McLaren for Mark Steen . |
| 28 | tell Damian to come up for me alright ? |
| 29 | And this Mr he was , he used to c he well he was collec calling f with Mr and he kept calling with me the same so I used to order my bulk in October to come in for Christmas goods . |
| 30 | There is nothing very new about it all Alf Ramsey was hounded out despite winning the World Cup , while Don Revie , Ron Greenwood and Bobby Robson came in for vilification but things do seem to be getting worse . |