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Example sentences for "come for"

  • They've come for me;" and the hands dropped as the breath left him, with the smile retained, on his countenance.

  • The request was repeated by John White's wife for him to come for them.

  • Mr. Hallack gave me five dollars to pay William's fare to Detroit to meet his family, as I volunteered to come for him.

  • If I come for you in half an hour, will that do?

  • Thank you, but I have already spoken to Piero to come for us.

  • Like the kingdom of heaven it doesn't come for observation.

  • I could hardly have expected you to come for mine.

  • Then when you didn't come for so long I got really scared and then I fell asleep and--" Tony came over and stopped the older girl's words with a kiss.

  • The time'll come for it--and then, you cats!

  • If only he WOULD do something that was not respectful, how splendid it would be to ask him to come for a walk in the woods, and, having told him why, give him a thrashing.

  • I don't want to hear what you've come for.

  • At four o'clock Kirsteen slipped in again, and whispered: "She made me promise to come for her.

  • I've been up to ask Pasiance to come for a sail.

  • Then for a few moments he talked of the war and old College days, and Pierson looked at him and thought: 'What has he come for?

  • They've come for us, they've come for us!

  • Don't come for my sake, Mr. Bantling," said Isabel.

  • He'll come for mine," Henrietta declared as she ushered her friend into a cab.

  • To see you; that's what I come for," Rosier repeated, feeling the intoxication of a rupture with authority.

  • Madame Catherine's to come for me at a quarter past seven, and I'm only to take two frocks.

  • There are few of them who don't come for meal; but the greater part of the men at Dunrossness are generally in good circumstances, and have the command of money, and they generally buy their meal in Lerwick, or where they can get it cheapest.

  • If they require to come for, advances in the meantime, in what way are these given out?

  • So he rode back to town and went to the county clerk's office and got his license, and then he found out where the Presbyterian minister lived, and he went there and told him who he was and what he'd come for.

  • So Henry, he went back home to git somebody to look after his stock while he was gone, and the next day he come for Emmeline, and they started to his mother's.

  • If he still cared for her, if he missed her, why didn't he come for her?

  • Almost anxiously she exclaimed: "Robert--come for me!

  • Virgie told me to 'phone and ask you to come for her.

  • I was wondering--but I suppose you've far more amusing things to do than to come for a walk with me this afternoon.

  • I say in all sincerity that, in that long pause between my asking Jennie to come for a walk with me and her acceptance, I had felt a suspense as real as any I ever felt.

  • Since it's good morning, come for a turn," I said.

  • Well, of course that is why I asked you to come for a walk this afternoon, Jennie," I said slowly.

  • What have I come for but to study all the customs here?

  • You’ve come for a spree again, I suppose?

  • For the last time I entreat you, tell me, can I have the sum you promised me to-day, if not, when may I come for it?

  • Every one can see that he hasn’t come for money, for his father would never give him any.

  • I’ve come for my pistols,” said Mitya, “and brought you the money.

  • And I ain't even answered your question as to what I come for.

  • But I reckon you wonder what we come for?

  • What did he come for if only to stay a little while?

  • Perhaps it doesn't affect the question, but if I'd promised to marry a man in Canada he'd certainly have to come for me.

  • Well," he said, "I'll come for my answer very shortly.

  • Don't think I could have made it if you hadn't come for me!

  • Her name is Lady Jane, and she'll come for it.

  • It was almost too beautiful a day for them to stop and pick berries, Peggy thought; but that was what they had come for.

  • Sometimes they do come for a week-end, and her birthday comes on a Saturday.

  • The girls expected Winthrop and Roger to come for them in the motor-car, but they had not told them to come quite so early as now seemed necessary.

  • I'll let you know when your folks come for you.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "come for" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    after considerable; bone pattern; come and; come ashore; come back; come closer; come hame; come here; come home; come near; come now; come uppe; come upstairs; come what; come where; cometh forth; disagreeable taste; feel better; first course; high quality; make progress; middle height; other substances; pleasant voice; sure you; you that