Example sentences of "came [adv] for a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The plane came down for a smooth landing amid the radar gear . |
| 2 | 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 ’ . |
| 3 | 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 ’ . |
| 4 | The paths of two lives , or three to be exact , came together for a little while and then separated . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The two legends came together for a race in aid of the charity , Comic Relief . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Specifically , in the case of Anthony Miers , the Royal Navy submariner who finally came in for a teeny bit of criticism over his methods of disposing of German seamen who rather inconveniently surrendered . |
| 9 | The immunity of Swiss companies to unfriendly or foreign takeovers came in for a pounding in 1988 after Nestlé took over Rowntree , a British confectioner , causing noisy British complaints about the lack of reciprocal opportunities . |
| 10 | He went out and Sisteradmission-ward came in for a short while , and we reconstructed the story . |
| 11 | Many of the farmer 's wives came in for a mug of tea and perhaps a piece of cake before they set off on the long drive for home . |
| 12 | SINEAD O'Connor came in for a lot of flack when she tore the picture of the Pope on American television but by selling her home for charity she has put her money where her mouth is . |
| 13 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 14 | Friends came in for a drink and a snack and kept on coming and going for the rest of the day , which was useful as well as friendly because they brought their appetites with them , and most of the refreshments were disposed of . |
| 15 | Here and elsewhere , the police also came in for a fair amount of criticism — Punch portrayed London 's genial giants Gog and Magog dressed as policeman , defending themselves from the wrath of the respectable populace — and there were perfectly sound reasons for such discontent . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | This meant that the married women left at home came in for a large share of the work about the croft . |
| 19 | Lio ! rt came in for a second run , but slower this time to allow for the big man 's unexpected agility . |
| 20 | One morning when she was in his office working on his personal files Mike came in for a discussion . |
| 21 | The school timetable came in for a lot of criticism , especially in cases where arrangements resulted in classes split between two teachers . |
| 22 | ‘ I came in for a lot of adulation during my racing days — groupies . |
| 23 | The eight men , from St John 's College , came in for a severe dressing down from the police after they bared all on a two-mile row down the River Isis . |
| 24 | 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 . ’ |
| 25 | He came in for a chat the other day and said , oh how you getting on ? |
| 26 | I think he ca I think he came tonight for a game of cards that 's all he came |
| 27 | Our son Greg came over for a few days to do some business in England and to see his father . |
| 28 | I came over for a short visit when my parents first moved here … ’ |
| 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 | When we came home for a mid-day dinner , the washing lines in the back garden would be hung with sheets , towels , our clothes , hankies and so on . |