Example sentences of "come [adv] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Put simply , everyone has come together for the common good and economic prosperity of the river . |
| 2 | ‘ Would you like to come home for a drink ? |
| 3 | She said : ‘ Try and persuade him to come home for a special tea . |
| 4 | Ideally , of course , there should be the choice , especially for islanders having to work on the mainland who want to come home for the weekend . |
| 5 | ‘ And I suppose you 've come home for a day or two 's holiday ? |
| 6 | ‘ I have n't come here for a history lesson , ’ said the Doctor . |
| 7 | If she was so genteel , she would n't have come here for the pittance she 's paid . |
| 8 | He has n't come here for the Portrush air and must not be written off . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ There must have been a reason to come here for a day . ’ |
| 10 | You may think it is a rum thing that a chap like Tim should pay an arm and a leg to come here for a year and then teach us a thing or two but then I am perfectly happy to admit that we do n't know everything . |
| 11 | ‘ The reason I chose to come here for a job was because I thought I had relations here . |
| 12 | The reason is that foreign companies want to come here for a highly trained and highly motivated work force who work for good British companies . |
| 13 | ‘ I bet you never thought you 'd end up as a social accessory whenever you agreed to come here for a holiday ! |
| 14 | Following the thought of my hon. Friend the Member for Dartford ( Mr. Dunn ) , may I invite the Minister to come there for a walk with his dog on Christmas day to envisage the damage that the new road will cause ? |
| 15 | Stewart Pearce the captain 's come forward for the kick taken by Black . |
| 16 | Support continued to come forward for the Appeal from Branches , individuals and organisations . |
| 17 | I was slightly alarmed when we got that copy of the Tipton Times , and there was a fire inside it , begging people to come forward for the er |
| 18 | The group , which included some 30 journalists , media teachers and lawyers from throughout Africa , came together for a seminar on ‘ The African Charter on Human and People 's Rights and its Impact on Communication Policy and Practice ’ . |
| 19 | The group , which included some 30 journalists , media teachers and lawyers from throughout Africa , came together for a seminar on ‘ The African Charter on Human and People 's Rights and its Impact on Communication Policy and Practice ’ . |
| 20 | The paths of two lives , or three to be exact , came together for a little while and then separated . |
| 21 | Whereby the whole church family , broke up into groups for a period of education , and then came together for a time of celebration and worship . |
| 22 | The two legends came together for a race in aid of the charity , Comic Relief . |
| 23 | A group of former Young Farmers who appeared in the film came together for a lunchtime drink to remember the making of the film and to talk over old times . |
| 24 | Some thirty graduates of the degree came together for an excellent meal in University House , followed by an informal update from one of the joint organisers of the reunion , Keith Moffitt , on the whereabouts of those who had been unable to attend . |
| 25 | It was on this trip that a remarkable partnership came together for the first time . |
| 26 | Four of the five protagonists of this story — Greco-Macedonians , Romans , Jews and Celts — came together for the first time in the Hellenistic period . |
| 27 | I think he ca I think he came tonight for a game of cards that 's all he came |
| 28 | Susan came downstairs for the first time on Christmas Eve , and was genuinely delighted to see how pretty Breeze had made the sombre old dining-room . |
| 29 | As I watched , the flame , a centimetre behind the wasp 's wax gummed head , freed the antennae from the grease and they came upright for a while before they frazzled . |
| 30 | 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 . |