Example sentences of "[vb past] [not/n't] come [adv prt] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although tankers did not come in for the attention they received in the 1980s , on 25 January Platt 's carried an account of an attack on an Iraqi tanker by US aircraft . |
| 2 | He did n't come back for several hours , afraid of Mum 's temper but Dad said he would replace the mirror and this seemed to pacify her . |
| 3 | She says for some reason he did n't come back for it . |
| 4 | My mother 's been up there and she did n't come back for two hours and she came back we kept well he 'd sold a lot of meat in the meantime . |
| 5 | She did n't come back for two days . |
| 6 | so I thought you were going to cos you did n't come back for a long time . |
| 7 | He give me them , I took them for three days , right , I did n't come down for a fortnight and Russell 'll tell you that , I was high as a kite . |
| 8 | And when I took those I did n't come down for a , and that frightened me , I said to Russell I will never ever take speed because it 's if , I was er we were in the pub right on a Sunday morning and I was there but I was n't there , I was somewhere else . |
| 9 | ‘ She went under a desk and did n't come out for four days . |