Example sentences of "had come [adv] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They toasted Keith and me ( Keith had come up for the day to join in ) and bought us a slow cooker for our new home . |
| 2 | If the literary establishment had thought to compare notes they would have realized that every male aura on and off Fleet Street had come in for a bashing . |
| 3 | He had come in for a book of stamps , and when he had got it he joined Breeze , who was waiting on the Green . |
| 4 | It had come in for the attack . |
| 5 | Toby had come back for the moment . |
| 6 | It also seemed , from the feathers on the kitchen floor , that one of the pigeons had come down for a warm and had got too close . |
| 7 | Now , as they left the shuttle lounge at Heathrow , mixed in with the commuters and shoppers who had come down for the day , Adam saw the tail . |
| 8 | Forest , held to a 1-1 draw at the City Ground , were 3-1 ahead with 17 minutes of normal time left , and deservedly so ; they had come out for the second half bristling with determination to make quality tell . |
| 9 | The smile had come out for the landlord , and disappeared when he had left the room . |