Example sentences of "do not come [adv] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | One day he did not come downstairs for supper . |
| 2 | Norm was very busy these days , and often did not come home for dinner . |
| 3 | When Norm did not come home for dinner , or when he ate and went out again to a meeting , Mira would spend the evening reading . |
| 4 | Molly and Judith frequently went visiting other girls in the community after dinner and as often as not did not come home for tea ; and , since Malka had married and left Cork , Judith spent even more Sundays out of the house . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | It affects us all and its practitioners do not come up for re-election every five years . |
| 7 | ‘ I did n't come here for a boozy evening . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ I did n't come here for a pen portrait . |
| 9 | ‘ Mr Nicholson , we did n't come here for a battle , ’ said Clinton . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | She says for some reason he did n't come back for it . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | She did n't come back for two days . |
| 14 | so I thought you were going to cos you did n't come back for a long time . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | ‘ She went under a desk and did n't come out for four days . |
| 18 | ‘ We do n't come here for economic reasons — we come here to seek life . ’ |
| 19 | Given Hoving 's long-standing jealousy of John Walsh , a former curator in the European paintings department who is now the director of the J. Paul Getty Museum , it is surprising that Walsh does not come in for more snide brickbats than a conversation Hoving cites with Getty , where the eccentric billionaire asks him if he would become the director of his museum . |
| 20 | ‘ She does n't come on for about ten minutes . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ If Steve does n't come back for a few days I 'll probably have to go into Palma and see the airlines and the tourist board myself . ’ |