Example sentences of "came [adv prt] for a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The plane came down for a smooth landing amid the radar gear . |
| 2 | Specifically , in the case of Anthony Miers , the Royal Navy submariner who finally came in for a teeny bit of criticism over his methods of disposing of German seamen who rather inconveniently surrendered . |
| 3 | The immunity of Swiss companies to unfriendly or foreign takeovers came in for a pounding in 1988 after Nestlé took over Rowntree , a British confectioner , causing noisy British complaints about the lack of reciprocal opportunities . |
| 4 | He went out and Sisteradmission-ward came in for a short while , and we reconstructed the story . |
| 5 | Many of the farmer 's wives came in for a mug of tea and perhaps a piece of cake before they set off on the long drive for home . |
| 6 | SINEAD O'Connor came in for a lot of flack when she tore the picture of the Pope on American television but by selling her home for charity she has put her money where her mouth is . |
| 7 | ‘ I came in for a lot of criticism but I know in my heart that the good things I did there were very conveniently swept under the carpet at the time . ’ |
| 8 | Friends came in for a drink and a snack and kept on coming and going for the rest of the day , which was useful as well as friendly because they brought their appetites with them , and most of the refreshments were disposed of . |
| 9 | Here and elsewhere , the police also came in for a fair amount of criticism — Punch portrayed London 's genial giants Gog and Magog dressed as policeman , defending themselves from the wrath of the respectable populace — and there were perfectly sound reasons for such discontent . |
| 10 | Thus Jasper 's father might have been the man who was painting the flats and who came in for a cup of tea , or the old lover whom she happened to run into in Denmark Hill , or the neighbour who was moving out of Flat 16 and who came up to say goodbye while his girlfriend was packing their furniture into the rented van . |
| 11 | After four weeks every group had interviewed four of the original subjects , plus others who came in for a single session , and they had all accumulated a great amount of material . |
| 12 | This meant that the married women left at home came in for a large share of the work about the croft . |
| 13 | Lio ! rt came in for a second run , but slower this time to allow for the big man 's unexpected agility . |
| 14 | One morning when she was in his office working on his personal files Mike came in for a discussion . |
| 15 | The school timetable came in for a lot of criticism , especially in cases where arrangements resulted in classes split between two teachers . |
| 16 | ‘ I came in for a lot of adulation during my racing days — groupies . |
| 17 | The eight men , from St John 's College , came in for a severe dressing down from the police after they bared all on a two-mile row down the River Isis . |
| 18 | But the attitude of women content to stay in their middle-level comfort zones came in for a lot too — not only from a male chief executive who had seen one of his recruits retreat from the fast track , but from senior female executives as well who felt women ‘ should take their share of responsibility for low applications for senior jobs . ’ |
| 19 | He came in for a chat the other day and said , oh how you getting on ? |
| 20 | Our son Greg came over for a few days to do some business in England and to see his father . |
| 21 | I came over for a short visit when my parents first moved here … ’ |
| 22 | He came up for a few days and stayed in Mackay 's Hotel in Ardallt . |
| 23 | The sun came up for a half an hour , but it was too cold : -46° Centigrade . |
| 24 | They had reached 62 and looked good for 200 when Greenidge played the ball to long leg and , seeing Devon Malcolm fumble his fielding , came back for a second . |
| 25 | I came back for a month , met a Peruvian girl and then I got a letter from her giving me a really good reason to come back . |
| 26 | When I was driving my new Granada in 1989 and dropped a friend down the road , a police car came past , saw the car with a black man driving it , circled round and came back for a second check . |
| 27 | It was boring in the passage but also , it proved , necessary , as one or two passengers came back for a look at the corpse . |
| 28 | The parents of the kids at the school where Mrs Rogers taught had her barred from the school , in case the hit squad came back for a second try . |
| 29 | They all just came back for a regular routine follow up , just a little bit late . |
| 30 | Last year they came back for a checkup and medics found their wheelchairs were ruined by the war torn terrain . |