Example sentences of "[noun] come [adv prt] for [art] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 ‘ Adam Reed came on for the last half hour and did well for a 16-year-old . ’
3 If I may broaden it away from erm the Cardinal Newman School and think probably of a lot of East Sussex Comprehensive Schools , I think we have all been , in the schools , in the last few years , working hard to establish this openness , and I think that the closed concept of the school , the school that locks children out at break or locks children out at dinner time , which only allows parents to come in for a phoney Open Day when there are a few children there , they are things largely , I think , of the past and they are the closed society .
4 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 .
5 This meant that the married women left at home came in for a large share of the work about the croft .
6 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 .
7 But the attitude of women content to stay in their middle-level comfort zones came in for a lot too — not only from a male chief executive who had seen one of his recruits retreat from the fast track , but from senior female executives as well who felt women ‘ should take their share of responsibility for low applications for senior jobs . ’
8 The sun came up for a half an hour , but it was too cold : -46° Centigrade .
9 oh look at the sky it 's grey , the sun came out for a minute , but it 's all grey again , oh , this sides ever so stiff
10 At £17.50 a ticket , I expected the band to come on for a bit longer or were they all dashing off to see Lady Chatterley too ?
11 As the curtain came down for the fourth time the ‘ helpers ’ all gave a huge sigh and reverted back to responsible adults !
12 Greed came in for the first time .
13 When the programme 's ratings dipped immediately after the November revamp , Focus came in for the heaviest criticism .
14 Nick Serota , director of the Tate , is at the moment coming in for a lot of criticism because he changes the displays every year .
15 This year I have my mummy and my daddy coming up for a couple of days and that will be fine
16 Darren Jackson comes in for the suspended Mike Ford …
17 What I find though , erm , becau my , because we got so much stuff coming in for the shop anyway , like the lettuce or the fruit and veg , my parents don , you know , like most people go , yo your mother probably goes , how many , how often does she make a shopping trip ?
18 ‘ Is thoo coming in for a cup o' tea ? ’ his father invited , but George shook his head .
19 After that , a top executive tends to get stale , in Pearce 's opinion , because ‘ you 're seeing the same problems coming up for the second , third or even fourth time and you begin to think you 've done it all before .
20 So we 'll have groups of teams coming along for an hour at a time and hopefully we 'll , you know , keep the impetus going through the day by doing that .
21 I told her it 's my wife come down for the day … ’
22 Alistair , Wendy and Anna come in for the worst of it .
23 They are not tremendously significant unless a person s name comes up for a more senior position .
24 After lunch ( in a little restaurant with a vine shading the tables , where the proprietor comes out for a chat , and orders him a brandy on the house ; 37,20 , wine and service included ; astonishing value ) he lies down on his bed , and with delicious gradualness , watching the bars of sunlight stirring gently on the half-drawn curtains , falls asleep .
25 It may involve additional cost if you 're going to have the er chefs coming in for a Saturday .
26 " Ask Dr. Lorrimer to come down for a few minutes , will you please ? "
27 Before returning to England he was asked to persuade Gladstone to come over for the 1878 Yale ‘ commencement ’ but he would plead in vain .
28 Should n't we be opening our universities to older people , for people to come back for a second dose as it were , for retraining and so on ?
29 It was boring in the passage but also , it proved , necessary , as one or two passengers came back for a look at the corpse .
30 There seemed only one answer , for India had seldom boasted fast bowlers of sufficient quality to operate much beyond the first half-dozen shine-removing overs before the spinners came on for the rest of the innings .
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