Example sentences of "come and go [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Now it seemed to come and go on the wind .
2 I 'll be able to come and go to the mortuary .
3 It seems that , despite the Council , pilgrims continued to come and go to the tomb of St Peter , and this was not irrelevant , for the noise and disturbance prevented many from hearing what was said .
4 The KDPI were able to come and go across the frontier and through the no man 's land between the opposing armies with great freedom .
5 Would she be free to come and go in the Casa Guidi as she liked ?
6 Two trains had come and gone on the northbound platform of the Bakerloo line at Marylebone tube station , but Harry had boarded neither .
7 Since then the spots have come and gone with a period of roughly 11 years .
8 Favourites , reform commissions and ordinances had come and gone with no sign of improvement either in the king 's government or in public order ; indeed , the realm was now in a state of virtual brigandage .
9 She had come and gone like a shadow .
10 Several researchers joined the group , masquerading as believers , and were thus present when midnight came and went without the prophecy being fulfilled .
11 People came and went along the street .
12 The lorries came and went on a service road near the town ; on some days the bulldozer clanked back and forth , crushing the rubbish into the soft , orange earth .
13 Though there were complaints in some places that 1 January 1913 came and went with no settlement in sight and though seamen on weekly boats in Hull were aggrieved at receiving less than their colleagues elsewhere , 2s.6d increases on weekly wages and 10s on monthly were fairly readily conceded , more in some places .
14 CHRISTMAS CAME AND WENT WITH NO CARD FROM ELEANOR .
15 Norfolk police , too , reported that the flood waters were abating and in Kent the high tide came and went with no need for evacuation .
16 Prince Charles Edward Stuart , ‘ Bonnie Prince Charlie ’ , came and went with a song , 10,000 starving Highlanders , and 12,000 Glasgow shirts .
17 Oak forests came and went with the hawk 's wing
18 He would just came and went into the yardmaster 's office and had a word or two with him and then he would maybe ask to see the staff local representative and the local committee .
19 ( The Beans always came and went through the kitchen . )
20 On the open deck in the stern , between life-jackets and coiled mooring ropes , prayer mats were laid out and men came and went throughout the day to pray towards the eastern shore .
21 Her sickness came and went throughout the day .
22 School came and went in the way that a school day usually lasts .
23 The acid trip came and went like an image on a screen , sometimes faint , sometimes strong — music among the trees , Lori 's dark head singing , colours among the undergrowth , curling like lurid fog , light crowning the treetops , Lori seeming to move in a stately dance .
24 However , as Cusick maintained , once the audience had seen people coming and going through a stone doorway they would subconsciously assume the rest of the set to be stone as well .
25 We are worried at the emotional impact on the children if bodies are coming and going into the church to be washed .
26 Friends came in for a drink and a snack and kept on coming and going for the rest of the day , which was useful as well as friendly because they brought their appetites with them , and most of the refreshments were disposed of .
27 He remembered about twenty-five young children coming and going to the house in Reading .
28 Shelley started sorting the patients ' cards into order , and wonderered why she felt a little hurt at the thought of Victoria coming and going at the Casa Madrid .
29 And when it came to moving them around , who was going to take any notice of vehicles coming and going from a hospital ?
30 Rachel stayed in her bedroom dressing , while she heard people coming and going from the villa incessantly , her father cheerful and everyone rushing around like mad trying to get ready .
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