Example sentences of "[pers pn] come and " in BNC.

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1 If I were looking for a record deal , I would be pursuing individual A&R people , getting them to come and see my band .
2 If they do , it is thought unwise to allow them to come and settle in this country by and large .
3 ‘ In the end we asked them to come and sit at the back of the stage , ’ Miss Picon recalled .
4 I 'm going to phone home and reverse the charges and get them to come and fetch me .
5 They 'll only phone Mum and Dad and get them to come and take me back .
6 The director , Mr Lee , she said , had written to the parents , inviting them to come and talk .
7 The parents had n't been offered any sort of advice or counselling ; they had all received a letter from Paul Lee inviting them to come and talk to his department , but no one had offered them any information about their children ; if they wanted that they had to ring up the department and ask for it .
8 ‘ Well , whoever told you it is n't allowed , tell them to come and tell me , ’ I said , and I took the child outside .
9 We managed to persuade them to come and sit with us and she ended up next to me .
10 We ca n't ask them to come and keep us warm from behind , er keep the draught off us from behind and
11 Because if if we er if we do n't hear a bit in the background and we do n't hear the style in the individual er on the phone then we wo n't invite them to come and have discussions with us .
12 Very kindly , Carole and Ben Meadows invited them to come and stay over the weekend .
13 ‘ Yes , and I hope you 're going to approve , because I 've made arrangements for them to come and stay here .
14 He had n't wanted them to come and disturb his peace , that was obvious .
15 so it was a bit of er struggle to er , to get them to come and look at it and fix 'em up again , well they did n't fix 'em up they , they , they give 'em a new one , they only got it in the sale
16 Not like , I mean I was making my way there , he was making his way there and I would n't want them to come and pick me up in the car
17 He urged me to come and see his new place in Brighton .
18 I hope they do n't ask me to come and do a benefit concert up there .
19 Raised his cap with a pretty gesture , blushed to his eyes and asked me to come and see his work . ’
20 The schoolmistress did not live in the School House , which was occupied by an old grannie , who every day called me to come and talk to her when she was out in her small garden , or in the cottage when the weather was less promising .
21 ‘ Cleg Jones advised me to come and see his brother , Dai is it ? ’ she asked tentatively .
22 Balbinder ran outside straight away , gesturing to me to come and look at it .
23 For the first term I felt guilty I 'd abandoned him even though he 'd told me to come and could stand on his own two feet .
24 I heard him working away up here alone , and he kept coming down all eager and excited and asking me to come and look , and I would n't … of all the ridiculous , petty …
25 He told me to come and see him again when I was pregnant .
26 If you would like me to come and discuss this further , please telephone me during office hours at this number ( ) or at home on .
27 Buchan was living at Elsfield Manor near Oxford and invited me to come and see him : no one could have been more helpful and encouraging .
28 Because , and they told m he t he told me to come and see
29 Do you want me to come and hold the stopwatch ? ’
30 Want me to come and fetch you ?
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