1700 examples of came for in sentences

I'm awfully sorry, but there were some letters came for you chaps this morning.

Several years were yet to elapse before the time came for taking up seriously the cause of prisons.

"No one came for me," he answered, choking so the words were scarcely intelligible.

Silence and solitude were such pleasant companions that the girl forgot herself, till a shrill whistle disturbed her day-dreams, and reminded her what she came for.

"I dreamed last night that a ship came for you and took you home.

"Well, I came for one thing," said Bobby, "to tell you that I couldn't stand for your wanting me to lie to-day.

"My errand," the man said in a silken tone that gloved grimmest menace, "is much the same as yoursquite naturallybut more fortunate; for I shall get not only what I came for, but something more.

But when the happy morning came for it to open, and M. Benest knelt beside his prize, he drew back a hand.

They often came for information and education, and they were probably glad to learn about alchemy from one of Ben Jonson's plays.

On the 10th of July, being now fully amended it came for a third time before the Lords; but it was no sooner brought forward than it met with the same opposition as it had experienced before.

I watched through the glass after that for possibly twenty minutes, until the summons came for lunch, but no more of the German dolls ventured out of their make- believe defenses to be blown flat by an invisible blast.

"That's what I came for.

My wife had hid the girl, when Hutchinson came for her.

The first time was after the battle of Worcester on his flight to the coast, and again he came for sanctuary with his whole court when the plague was ravaging the capital.

Neither was I prepared for a question like 'Do you know English?', when I came for the interview.

Charlotte was, amongst her other qualities, avaricious, and though wealthy and ostentatious she rebelled at expenditure which did not show, and when it came time for her to leave Rome for the summer, and her passport came for visa, I stopped it and notified her to take out a new one.

About three years after, the two Presbyteries met near this place in Germantown, Mo., and he seemed as if he could not contain himself till the time came for the meeting, so anxious was he for this great desire of his heart to be fulfilled.

Long low warehouses fringed the shore, for here came for shipping vast quantities of hides; as San Diego, which is situated within a few miles of the frontier between the United States and Mexico, is the sole sheltered port available for shipping between San Francisco and the mouth of the Gulf of California.

That night, about nine o'clock, Gwenda came for the third time to Rowcliffe at his house.

Sometimes in her play-hours she would endeavor to prepare her two younger sisters for the lessons which they would receive from their father, and, when the time came for her to join in giving them regular instruction, she entered into it with zest and interest.

He was here until father came for me, and then stepped into the other room.

But evil days came for the Congregation of St. James, and now it is extinct.

Buck Gowdy came for only a few minutes, and these he spent eating ice-cream with Elder Thorndyke, with Virginia across the table from him, looking at her in that old way of his.

Before breakfast orders came for me to cut down the Exertion's railing and bulwarks on one side, for their vessel to heave out by, and clean her bottom.

As the time came for Bart's examination, she carelessly remarked that he would be home soon, and was told that he had decided to take a short course in the Albany law-school, and would go directly from Jefferson; that when he left in the spring, he had determined not to return to Newbury until the end of a year; but that his mother might expect him certainly at that time.

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