Example sentences of "to come [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When Moran pressed her to come for the Christmas dinner , she refused . |
| 2 | We leave , saddened by the plight and determined to come for longer the next time , to stay through a winter and spring , to find out what that old woman had really been up to holding that white sheet up to the Northern Lights . |
| 3 | ‘ I just meant , I mean , er … would you like to come for a coffee . |
| 4 | New York has always been the place to come for a good show trial . |
| 5 | When Professor Tidy sat down , worse was to come for the defendants , as a plethora of witnesses placed every permutation of the four in or about the vicinity at various times that evening . |
| 6 | ‘ You wo n't get the AA to come for hours on a day like this . ’ |
| 7 | Most choose to come for two-week periods , with time to practise at home in between . |
| 8 | With my form filled in , I phoned : ‘ I want to come for a fortnight , but the problem is , I have a book to finish . |
| 9 | I do encourage people to come for cups of coffee or bites to eat . |
| 10 | Some harbour resentments going back many years , which only come to the surface when a crisis causes the couple to come for counselling . |
| 11 | Obviously you will only be asked to come for an interview if you have made an initial approach for a job . |
| 12 | In some cases the response to your letter or telephone call will be a definite appointment to come for an interview . |
| 13 | If you are in two minds then give the candidate the benefit of the doubt and allow him or her to come for interview and elaborate on the details given on the form . |
| 14 | Mr Marshall 's fair used to come for the feast weekend and , in 1914 , he again contributed to the effort by offering to play sacred music on his fairground organ after the Sunday church services , with a collection for the hospital funds . |
| 15 | How would you like to come for a ride ? ’ |
| 16 | Maria replied that she was to be allowed to come for two days in the week following her letter . |
| 17 | The men from the Rathcoole district waited for the order to come for their release , but nothing happened . |
| 18 | ‘ I did n't want him to come for me . |
| 19 | A small hospital built of wood and bamboo and thatched with palm leaves , with one ward for about ten beds , a labour room and a room for Avice , was built , and six village girls agreed to come for training . |
| 20 | Or , as Niall Fitzduff put it , the community ‘ is not to be destroyed at the whim of mining company ’ while nothing could ‘ compensate us or the generations to come for the loss of our community ’ . |
| 21 | Whenever he rang up he was welcome to come for a night , or meet them in London and have dinner . |
| 22 | She promises to come for him at noon . |
| 23 | ‘ I went home and got on with my work expecting them to come for me any day or night . ’ |
| 24 | I found I had to get Dawn 's weight down much more than I 'd expected , or would have wished , just to persuade her to come for the food on my fist . |
| 25 | I had been horrified at his scarecrow appearance when I first saw him at the clinic , and when I met him by chance in Tala-Tala I felt so sorry for him that I asked him if he would like to come for dinner . |
| 26 | I no longer vociferously challenge those who insult ; instead , I may casually invite them to come for a coffee and see/meet some students . |
| 27 | They 're even prepared to come for free , if we let them mime the record . " |
| 28 | One Sunday I asked Biddy to come for a walk on the marshes . |
| 29 | She was the sort of woman who used to come for the weekend at home , sometimes , with a suitcase full of little black dresses for cocktails and dinner . |
| 30 | ‘ I found Tobermory sleeping in the smoking-room , and called out to him to come for his tea . |