Example sentences of "came and [vb past] in the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When he left school , he forgot entirely about the whole business , forgot about it for a couple of decades , forgot until this thin , tired fellow , looking so very much like his old school chaplain , came and hovered in the drive , the epitome , it seemed to Patrick , of the doubting kind of modern Anglican clergyman . |
| 2 | School came and went in the way that a school day usually lasts . |
| 3 | It was as if his seasons came and went in the phrases he wrote . |
| 4 | Martha and the Muffins and Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark , both Wilson discoveries , came and went in the charts — and still negotiations dragged on . |
| 5 | Wanting very much to hear ( because he was sure that this was a lover calling , from the voice ) , the man used the boxing match as an excuse , and he came and stood in the kitchen doorway with a wet plate and the cloth in his hands , and looked at the television . |
| 6 | Revelation came and sat in the shade of Masquerade 's bows where she plucked two chickens that I suspected had been killed in honour of my return to the island . |