Example sentences of "and went [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She came and went while he was out , tidying up , laying the table for his evening meal , and no doubt reading his letters and looking in his drawers to see if he had a rupture belt or kept a stock of contraceptives . |
| 2 | Many announced , leaked , and predicted dates for unveiling the Clinton plan came and went before the maestro of the Reagan image was improbably summoned to manage the case of Bill Clinton . |
| 3 | So anyway I er the War came and went but before it went I was in , went int eh Army of course . |
| 4 | At the end of forty days Noah opened the window of the Ark , that he had made and sent out a raven which came and went until the waters upon the earth had dried up . |
| 5 | He had made and sent out a raven which came and went until the waters upon the earth had dried up . |
| 6 | Which came and went until the waters upon the earth had dried up . |
| 7 | Erm , upon the earth , hang on , and went until the waters upon the earth had drained . |
| 8 | An hour later , she was sent for and went as she was , still in the apron spotted with bits of meat and potato where they had clung to her as she fought for them . |
| 9 | He is a volatile character , far more so than me , and he came and went as he pleased . |
| 10 | Robert seems to have had a special affection for the Orynthia ; whereas many mariners came and went as the whim took them , he stuck to his old ship . |
| 11 | Rufus would n't have bothered , he came and went as he pleased , and anyway did n't believe parents should be pandered to in this way . |
| 12 | They each came and went as they pleased . |
| 13 | She no longer needed a constant attendant by then and Annunziata and Comfort came and went as they chose . |
| 14 | People came and went as she sat thinking about this . |
| 15 | Kitty still came and went as she pleased , borrowing money from both her sisters as well as Charlie , and never paying them back . |
| 16 | Shimon Peres ' best chance of forming a government probably came and went when two members of an orthodox religious party caused an uproar in parliament while renegeing on a promise to join the Labour Party coalition . |
| 17 | His Mum got up off his bed and went and opened his cupboard . |
| 18 | He left them on the road and went and tried again . |
| 19 | But Basil got summonsed for wounding — an inspector in a tram-car had seen it and went and gave evidence against him . |
| 20 | He exhorts us to remember the virtue of Abraham who left the stability of Ur of the Chaldees and obeyed God and went and ‘ made his home in the promised land like a stranger in a foreign country ; he lived in tents . ’ |
| 21 | Christmas came and went and Ruth was glad to see the back of it . |
| 22 | She got to her feet and went and picked up the phone . |
| 23 | But then I got led astray , and went and did that awful thing to poor Annunciata . " |
| 24 | I reached the square and went and sat in the Café des Chasseurs , where men with nowhere to rush sat smoking and drinking , blank-faced . |
| 25 | She told me not to be silly and went and reported me . |
| 26 | The bull terrier at once left off lapping water from its baking dish and went and put its head on her knee . |
| 27 | Grumbling beneath her breath , she dragged herself upright and went and opened the door . |
| 28 | But that was good fun , there were eighteen of us , from eight different countries er Americans and Canadians and Australians and New Zealanders and Dutch and Swiss and English and er we had a good time , and then we and went and did mountain biking in Katmandu |
| 29 | One day Tod took from the trash a framed certificate and went and hung it on the toilet doornail . |
| 30 | When I got back to Manaus someone said , ‘ You 've got the geography worm , Larva migrans , ’ and went and got some dry ice and killed them . |