Example sentences of "to come [prep] the [noun] for " in BNC.
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1 | Shout , they 'd shout something but er well since we 've been living up here , my mother used to give , the man used to come for the order for the grocery , the baker used to come round , the milk used to come round , they all used to come round at she 'd ha she did n't have go out for heavy loads of stuff to bring in it was all delivered , but when they started some new technique of er of ordering by computer , it 's going to come back to square one again you know , they 'll be delivering stuff in the same jolly old way hey . |
2 | The next night , before going to bed , Gabriel called his two dogs to come into the house for the night . |
3 | We would n't want a load of medical students to come into the room for a good look , for example . |
4 | SOME shock results on the first day of the French Olympic classes regatta at Hyeres yesterday showed that there could still be plenty of surprises to come in the race for British team selection . |
5 | The Bill must be one of the most sensitive to come before the House for many years . |
6 | He also does himself no good by laying a prayer that has to be among the most bogus , ill thought out and badly argued measures to come before the House for many a long year . |
7 | ‘ I shall have to ask you not to come to the wardroom for some time after they come . |
8 | The easiest task for Emma was learning to come to the table for lunch when called and once she had started to receive stickers for this she became aware of how to earn them . |
9 | The deer by the creek had the misfortune to come to the roadside for an ill-judged second . |
10 | So Lilian was informed that she was to come to the dentist for an examination . |
11 | But it was an occasion for spectators rather than bidders and only two lots exceeded expectations , Eric Gill 's fine , if slightly sweet , stone carving , ‘ Mother and Child ’ ( lot 20 , est. £25,000–35,000 ) , described by the auction house as his most important sculpture to come to the market for ten years and bought by a telephone bidder against the Fine Art Society for £56,000 ( $85,680 ) , and Graham Sutherland 's boldly coloured ‘ Palm Palisade ’ ( lot 88 , est. £40,000–60,000 ) which was acquired by Agnews for £68,000 ( $104,040 ) after competition with private dealers Ivor Braka and underbidder Jamie Maclean . |
12 | The hospital was worried ; they had written to Mary several times asking her to come to the hospital for the results of her tests . |