Example sentences of "come [conj] [vb past] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Tenants came and went with great rapidity .
2 Wycliffe said that he did , which was something of a record , for Franks 's secretaries came and went with bewildering frequency , though all were to a common stamp .
3 Tributers , who raised the actual ore , came and went with more freedom .
4 The forms of criminal or lawless activity which have followed the civil rights movement which came and went in 1969–71 will disappear as and when there is a general conviction that there is going to be one society and one particular sort of society in Northern Ireland — that is to say , one state , one particular sort of state , and no other .
5 Two young Romanians came and stood on either side of me at the mirror .
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