Example sentences of "come [adv prt] for a " in BNC.
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| 1 | At £17.50 a ticket , I expected the band to come on for a bit longer or were they all dashing off to see Lady Chatterley too ? |
| 2 | ‘ And — ah — I shall be in my study , and delighted to meet any of you , should you care to come along for a chat , ’ said the headmaster , very much as an afterthought , and clearly hoping they would n't . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Understandably , this presumption has come in for a great deal of criticism . |
| 5 | The successful receptionist models could be used to devise special training to enable CAB receptionists to ascertain the depth of a problem ; they could serve the dual function of assessing which clients have just come in for a form or a local address and they could make appointments for others in person or by telephone and smooth the queue . |
| 6 | However , the Green Paper has come in for a variety of criticisms and there is little evidence that its recommendations will be acted upon in the short- or medium-term . |
| 7 | He had come in for a book of stamps , and when he had got it he joined Breeze , who was waiting on the Green . |
| 8 | Dates have just come in for a series of Ovation guitar clinics , with Ian Aitken : Wed Oct 14th , Picton Music , Swansea ; Thu 15th , Cranes Music , Cardiff ; Mon 26th , Oasis Music , Ringwood , Hants ; Tues 27th , Soundpad , Barnstaple ; Thu 29th , Avalon Music , Sevenoaks ; Wed 11th Nov , Music Inn , Nottingham ; Thu 12th , Musical Exchange , Birmingham ; Fri 13th , Foulds of Derby ; Wed 18th , Rose Morris Music Store , London . |
| 9 | JACQUES Delors has come in for a lot of flak for the collapse of the Gatt world trade talks . |
| 10 | The prince has come in for a lot of criticism from the UN and the West for spending most of the past few months in China . |
| 11 | While it has come in for a certain amount of criticism , it has also attracted much praise , especially from industry . |
| 12 | He never wrote entirely admiring reviews : ‘ It 's the essence of a book never to be perfect , ’ he said , ‘ so its writer must expect to come in for a little criticism . ’ |
| 13 | If you 'd care to come in for a cup of tea , now that you 've got out and everything , you 'd be most welcome . |
| 14 | We used to come in for a fair amount of ribbing and good-natured chaff , and remarks like , Was it a red sky this morning ? |
| 15 | In their early twenties they had a group called the Actors and RCA records asked them to come in for a meeting . |
| 16 | She said politely , ‘ Would you like to come in for a last drink ? ’ |
| 17 | Want to come in for a minute ? " |
| 18 | She had asked Elizabeth and Dr Wyn to come in for a drink that evening . |
| 19 | ‘ Would you like to come in for a … cup of coffee or something ? ’ |
| 20 | Unable to come in for a presentation , Archie was visited at home to be given a retirement gift from the company and one from his colleagues . |
| 21 | He used to come in for a couple of drinks . |
| 22 | and erm I used to do erm , keep a check on the flying times of the planes cos every forty hours they had to come in for a different check . |
| 23 | Hello er , I 'm phoning on behalf of Mrs Ada er she 's got to come in for a scan on the fourth of February , nine o'clock , now we 've only just got back from the hospital today , cos she oh , she had to go today for one , yeah , and we 've just |
| 24 | If I may broaden it away from erm the Cardinal Newman School and think probably of a lot of East Sussex Comprehensive Schools , I think we have all been , in the schools , in the last few years , working hard to establish this openness , and I think that the closed concept of the school , the school that locks children out at break or locks children out at dinner time , which only allows parents to come in for a phoney Open Day when there are a few children there , they are things largely , I think , of the past and they are the closed society . |
| 25 | Pam has come down for a day of shopping , bringing along our adopted younger sister Kath . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | I ask him to come down for a few days and I also invite Lady De Marr . |
| 28 | " Ask Dr. Lorrimer to come down for a few minutes , will you please ? " |
| 29 | and go out and that , if you want to come down for a couple of days . |
| 30 | Ring her up , see if she wants to come down for a drink . |