same as come at
to come to a place in order to arrest someone
to come to a place so that you can take someone or something away with you
Afterwards, as we survivors cowered in burnt huts and tried to comprehend how our lives had been so torn apart, the secret police came for me again.
I’ve just come for the book your brother borrowed from me.
One night he came for me.
The police came for him in the middle of the night.
The taxi will come for us at around 8 o’clock.
comes for
coming for
came for
There is no origin for this phrasal verb
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