Example sentences of "[noun sg] came for [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Andy was supervising a chlorination at a large tape manufacturers in Middlesbrough when the opportunity came for him to test drive the vehicle . |
| 2 | first time that the church warden came for her to go to church she fell getting out of his car . |
| 3 | The band came for what seemed like a Royal visit to the EMI CD plant at Swindon , to see their song become the 100 000 000th disc to be produced there . |
| 4 | Soon the day came for him to leave for school . |
| 5 | The day came for me to go back to work . |
| 6 | Creggan was startled by this and wondered if in some way she understood that he had made a vow that if ever the chance came for them to escape he would place her freedom before his own . |
| 7 | They were the people who were already ‘ suffering greatly from having some 57,000 boat people there and more and more and more would come when the season came for them to leave Vietnam . ’ |
| 8 | The only movement from the reader was the lifting of the hand every now and then to turn over a page , and Mrs Phelps always felt sad when the time came for her to cross the floor and say , ‘ It 's ten to five , Matilda . ’ |
| 9 | So it is believable that , up to the moment when the time came for her to sign the transfer , she knew nothing of it . |
| 10 | He just laughed and told me that his old one was well good enough for whenever the time came for me to take over . |
| 11 | ‘ And yet when the time came for me to go to her , I hesitated . |
| 12 | The time came for me to go to university . |
| 13 | When the time came for me to pay and depart , my enquiry about the cost of the meal was brushed aside . |
| 14 | When the time came for them to go , Stephen went with them to the buildings , to see where the greys were stabled . |
| 15 | Their economies ensured that the fleapits would remain forever fleapits , until the time came for them to close . |
| 16 | One of the councillors on the libraries committee took a copy of Gay News home to study so that he could n't be accused of being uninformed when the time came for him to vote for its rejection . |