Example sentences of "[pron] come [adv] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In their early twenties they had a group called the Actors and RCA records asked them to come in for a meeting . |
| 2 | I came here for the history . |
| 3 | ‘ I came on for the final five minutes of that match and got 45 minutes in the second half of the second leg which we won 1–0 . |
| 4 | I came over for a short visit when my parents first moved here … ’ |
| 5 | ‘ I came in for a lot of criticism but I know in my heart that the good things I did there were very conveniently swept under the carpet at the time . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ I came in for a lot of adulation during my racing days — groupies . |
| 7 | I came down for the fire , for it was cold in my room . |
| 8 | I came back for a month , met a Peruvian girl and then I got a letter from her giving me a really good reason to come back . |
| 9 | He told me , before I first went to England in 1947 , to make sure I came back for the next Australian season so that I would be eligible for selection for the '48 tour . |
| 10 | With the playback that in fact erm as has said it showed me what in fact I was doing right and wrong , erm I 've been on television before once when I was running the London marathon but this time it was actually me and me alone in a work element and I could in fact see what I was doing and why I was doing it and understand in fact the corrections from the morning to in fact the afternoon presentation when I came back for the second one . |
| 11 | ‘ I came out for a walk , ’ she said , shrugging off his hands . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Well , I came home for the 1986 Turnberry Open expecting to caddie for Mac O'Grady but that did n't materialize , so Nick and I joined up in July 1986 . |
| 14 | Can I come up for a moment ? ’ |
| 15 | May I come in for a moment ? |
| 16 | Well Miss rang me up about twenty to nine and said could I come in for the day and I said you 've had it for the day though consider the afternoon . |
| 17 | If I 've had a big bill , occasionally I 've had to say to my mum ‘ I 've no money left , can I come down for the week ? ’ and I 've had to go down there . |
| 18 | Well I was n't married but I used to go in there and I used to come home er say in Winter if I come home for a w week or two , I go in there , and sit by the fire and have a yard . |
| 19 | The women lived with it — some of them came here for a week and then went back to it . |
| 20 | Yes and and then when the lifeboat came , the Eday and and Sanday and them a lot of them came across for the dances , the lifeboat dances , it was really I would say the best time |
| 21 | When this is suggested , the invitation should always be along the lines of : ‘ I 'd love you to come out for a run in the car with me some time . |
| 22 | The presenting problem should be recognised , for example , ‘ Your niece wondered if you would like us to arrange for you to come out for the day once a week ? ’ |
| 23 | ‘ I do n't mind , ’ Caroline laughed , holding out her arms to the child , who came willingly for a cuddle . |
| 24 | Guest of honour was Brigadier Garton who came up for the evening from his base at Catterick Garrison . |
| 25 | It is interesting to see the gravestones of the numerous people who came here for a cure for consumptive diseases and remained for ever . |
| 26 | The 24 runners included six from the site Fire Brigade , bravely running in their waterproof overtrousers and braces , and two from CSD 's Brussels staff who came over for the occasion . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Thus Jasper 's father might have been the man who was painting the flats and who came in for a cup of tea , or the old lover whom she happened to run into in Denmark Hill , or the neighbour who was moving out of Flat 16 and who came up to say goodbye while his girlfriend was packing their furniture into the rented van . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | In 1980 we changed to a system of community and private nurses who came in for an hour or two in the morning and evening . |