Example sentences of "came and go [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Several researchers joined the group , masquerading as believers , and were thus present when midnight came and went without the prophecy being fulfilled . |
| 2 | People came and went along the street . |
| 3 | Julia felt too ill to be interested in what he was doing , and in any case her mind came and went as the waves of fever rose and fell , but she heard Comfort say : |
| 4 | Oak forests came and went with the hawk 's wing |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | ( The Beans always came and went through the kitchen . ) |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Her sickness came and went throughout the day . |
| 9 | School came and went in the way that a school day usually lasts . |
| 10 | It was as if his seasons came and went in the phrases he wrote . |
| 11 | Martha and the Muffins and Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark , both Wilson discoveries , came and went in the charts — and still negotiations dragged on . |
| 12 | The patients who recovered in these boxes and enclosures came and went like the inmates of any other busy casualty ward , but , of course , there were big differences : most importantly , there was no waiting list , and no one had to pay ! |