Example sentences of "to come [coord] [vb infin] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Jeff told me he 'd had a word with you about me and told you I had lots of experience teaching English to foreign students and that you wanted me to come and do the job . ’ |
| 2 | Well , you talked about us having prisoners , did n't you , well there was a camp not far from us , got these Italian prisoners to come and do the ditching . |
| 3 | When the food-finder arrives at its nest it uses further pheromones to recruit other ants to come and collect the food ; Myrmica rubra , for instance , having laid its trail from its poison gland , attracts its nest mates back to the food with a pheromone from its Dufour 's gland . |
| 4 | They sent him delivery order but he failed to come and collect the rice . |
| 5 | There was a little hand-bell by her place ; she rang it for Bernadette to come and clear the breakfast plates away . |
| 6 | A friend of mine , Audrey Walker , used to come and involve the patients in some gentle exercises . |
| 7 | I invited him to come and conduct the orchestra in Aachen . |
| 8 | Is it not sad that no Cleveland Conservative has been able to come and represent the children of Cleveland today , and that that task has had to be left to a Conservative from Ealing ? |
| 9 | Do you want me to come and hold the stopwatch ? ’ |
| 10 | They actually have to come and meet the person fact to face . |
| 11 | He should have gone days ago and alerted the Regent to the situation , to come and relieve the town . |
| 12 | He then drove to the office of a friend who was an architect , and within minutes had persuaded him to come and examine the job to be done on the house . |
| 13 | It was here , in autumn and winter , that the men used to come and hunt the herds of tār . |
| 14 | His two brothers both died with smallpox cos one was , they all three went to Wolverhampton Grammar School and they were a Wednesbury family and they died with the smallpox but I thought they were putting the youngest which was my grandfather for the best trai one was going in for law and the other was going in for medicine , and the youngest was go which was the same as engineering is today I suppose , and he went into the gun trade , and I can remember him , he was a grand old chap and er he used to come and bring the springs that he 'd made and to temper them he used to throw them in the kitchen fire , and they 'd die out and get them all out of the ashes in the morning , and he used to take his week 's work in his waistcoat pockets and his day out was to get on the tram at the Brown Lion , and go straight through Wednesbury and right through West Bromwich up to the Constitutional in Birmingham to Greeners or Wembley and Scotts and he 'd got these gun locks as he 'd made during the week in his waistcoat pockets . |
| 15 | When I went there , the Corporation men used to come and wash the whole of Scotland Road . |
| 16 | She was rounding up a party to come and inspect the property . |
| 17 | Sober reflection would have shown him that the sensible procedure would have been to phone the police and get them to ask the Bomb Disposal Squad to come and check the bag out . |
| 18 | I think Leonora Stem has made a tentative identification with a young Mr Thomas Hearst of Richmond who liked to come and play the oboe with the ladies . |
| 19 | MUSICIANS across Essex are being invited to come and join the band , with applications invited for places in three orchestras for the 1994 season . |
| 20 | would you like to come and putt the shot |
| 21 | This majestic sight , glimpsed through undulating woldland patchwork , or from the flatter marshland , entices all strangers who behold it for the first time to come and investigate the town further ; to discover its rich history and its modern enchantment . |
| 22 | The preview evening and following three days enabled many people to come and appreciate the variety of gifts and talents which helped to enhance the natural beauty and lines of the Cathedral . |
| 23 | And it tells how a remarkable boy is going to come and save the world . |
| 24 | The night patrol was meant to come and turn the lights off at a quarter to ten , but sometimes they would n't turn up until eleven or half eleven . |
| 25 | He was a retired thatcher and he used to come and work the bees , as he said , at the saddler 's where I was apprentice . |
| 26 | In short of having before your Lordship a very complicated er array of procedural options , er the , the view that has been taken by , my lead was the most appropriate er course was to come and argue the issue substantially and then in the light of what your Lordship rules thereafter to see the best way forward in terms of further procedural applications to your Lordship . |
| 27 | Having handed the glass to Daisy , he turned to Perdita : ‘ Like to come and see the yard ? ’ |
| 28 | Each individual has its own area of staging , and obviously after a dog has done well , other owners and members of the public are likely to want to come and see the winner . |
| 29 | Erica Brausen said , ‘ Let's have that show ; I do n't need to come and see the pictures ’ . |
| 30 | ‘ You 're to come and see the child tomorrow , Tom , ’ he ordered . |