Example sentences of "come for [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Maria replied that she was to be allowed to come for two days in the week following her letter .
2 The valleys will have nobody working at all , there 'll be no one paying insurances , no income tax , so where is the money going to come for future pensions for people right through the country .
3 It is important we know how many want to come for each event , so PLEASE CONTACT Val Hawkins ( 453-3366 ) or David Cameron ( 445 1154 ) or sign the list to be circulated , as soon as possible .
4 Most choose to come for two-week periods , with time to practise at home in between .
5 encourage movement in your opponent 's position by : summarizing the course of negotiations so far , suggesting that the time has come for mutual concessions suggesting a new position which represents a different point of departure for both parties linking two or more issues since ‘ it might help us get nearer a settlement ’ suggesting an adjournment indicating the exact area to which you want your opponent to pay attention
6 They worked steadily , dealing first with patients who had come for audio testing , an important part of the health screening programmes that were regularly carried out on members of the workforce .
7 The time has surely come for local authorities , at least , to develop and implement ‘ whole authority ’ policies and procedures on a range of topics , which would certainly include children with special needs and also child abuse .
8 With adverse publicity about the failure to establish a development programme in the black townships and a renewal of sanctions from the ANC now inevitable , Botha believes that the time has come for ageing administrators like Danie Craven to step down .
9 In God 's purposes Jesus had already gone to the cross , he was alre , hi his , his natural fate if you like , was already sealed , he had come for this purpose , he had come to die .
10 ‘ I think he had come for some sort of show .
11 Perhaps the time has come for another name to be engraved on the trophies .
12 planning applications and er er items relating to Poor Lane , er and also the traffic on Station Road later on , er I think it 's rather complicated to talk about all of these at at one go , because I know er different members of the public have come for different reasons and perhaps , for the moment , I 'll not ask for any comments about Mr Smith 's proposals on Poor Lane , er nor er comments about Station Road , er but I will ask you if you want to refer to planning applications , er we have three planning applications , one is to extend the car park behind the pub , one is for a change of plan to one of the houses on the development adjacent to us , er and the third one is er er the plans submitted by Grant Development at Thorney , erm , I suspect most comments will be about the last , er perhaps I should ask first if anybody wants to make any comments about proposals behind the reindeer in , or at Chapel cottage site , does anybody , er in the public want to mention those erm , well we will go on to the one at Thorney then , and you 're Mr Walker ?
13 ‘ I have come for three hours while Joe is selling the pigs . ’
14 As published in the newspaper Borba on Dec. 15 , 1989 , this document announced that " the end has come for authoritarian socialism " and stated that the LCY supported freedom of assembly and speech and all other civil liberties " regardless of political convictions " .
15 ‘ We just came for five years … ’ : writings about young life in Jamaica and adult life in England .
16 Of course his wife did visit me , but always with her daughters and other ladies who came for regular afternoon visits .
17 Many of them pass it on to their wives ; 1% of the women who came for pre-natal tests at the hospital were HIV-positive .
18 When the time came for constructive criticism of my sermon , my friend Hartmut Kopsch remained resolutely silent .
19 A few days later the call came for general mobilisation .
20 ‘ I came for that weekend .
21 But the pastor only came for one service every two weeks even then , in the war . ’
22 They came for six months after seven day wonder , something had happened to us .
23 , and they came for eighteen months , two years , at the end of which the quality of the work had deteriorated , price was rocketing up
24 They had had other help in the house too ; Mrs Eddy from the village who came for three hours every morning , and her daughter Jess who waited at table for dinner parties and helped with the clearing up after .
25 During the Battle of Britain , an urgent call came for quick production of Receiver and Transmitter Cabins — radio location or Radar .
26 The African Institution , when the time came for public agitation , was unfitted for the task because of its direction by ‘ men of rank and high position ’ .
27 They 're only coming for eleven weeks , and that of course starting in June , take some holidays , and
28 But immigration officials said no , believing she was coming for paid work .
29 In a characteristic show of intellectual bravado , de Gaulle now said that he had seen independence coming for twenty years or more .
30 She had delayed coming for twenty-four hours because she had a hair appointment .
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