Example sentences of "[verb] and go [subord] " in BNC.

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1 The other big name to come and go after the Cup final was Keith Curle when the price is right .
2 A quick trip to stock the fridge , the larder and the wine rack and everything is set for a fantastic holiday , with the freedom to come and go when you choose , eat the very best available in the shops , try out the local wines and generally ‘ go native ! ’
3 You are free to come and go as you wish .
4 She may well have lived in her parents ' house before her enclosure : when she describes the circumstances of her visions in The Revelations of Divine Love , she says that there were a large number of people round her bed and that priests were able to come and go as they pleased , which would not always have been possible in an anchorage .
5 We were even able to come and go as we pleased , taking full advantage of the splendid local restaurants .
6 Their newly acquired rights ( to come and go as they pleased , to own and dispose of property , to buy and sell goods ) contributed to the growth of trade and also strengthened the economic power of the burgesses in relation to that of the nobility .
7 Yet , in contrast to official policy , Contact staff allowed users to come and go as they pleased in the centres .
8 She snapped that she was entitled to come and go as she pleased and said an old friend had offered to buy her supper .
9 She knew her limitations better than she knew her worth , and she taught in a private school because it gave her a little more latitude to come and go as she wished — an important point , since she cared for an old mother whom eighty years had made exacting .
10 I hate to burst your royal bubble , Excellency , but I 'm free to come and go as I please . ’
11 Here , he was able to come and go as he pleased , as long as he was in between 11 p.m. at night and 7 a.m. in the morning .
12 Once the badgers have adapted to their new homes the fences will be removed and they 'll be free to come and go as they please .
13 Hagans was allowed to come and go as he pleased and only days later , he raped and murdered council worker , Anna McGurk , as she walked home from her office .
14 Two such visitors had come and gone since her arrival at Roscarrock Hall , one an Irish priest on his way out to Galicia and the other an Oxford scholar on his way to train as a Jesuit in France .
15 A delicious tray of fresh Severn salmon sandwiches had come and gone as had several more rounds of drinks , and Yanto was getting restless .
16 She came and went while he was out , tidying up , laying the table for his evening meal , and no doubt reading his letters and looking in his drawers to see if he had a rupture belt or kept a stock of contraceptives .
17 Many announced , leaked , and predicted dates for unveiling the Clinton plan came and went before the maestro of the Reagan image was improbably summoned to manage the case of Bill Clinton .
18 Shimon Peres ' best chance of forming a government probably came and went when two members of an orthodox religious party caused an uproar in parliament while renegeing on a promise to join the Labour Party coalition .
19 He is a volatile character , far more so than me , and he came and went as he pleased .
20 Robert seems to have had a special affection for the Orynthia ; whereas many mariners came and went as the whim took them , he stuck to his old ship .
21 Rufus would n't have bothered , he came and went as he pleased , and anyway did n't believe parents should be pandered to in this way .
22 They each came and went as they pleased .
23 She no longer needed a constant attendant by then and Annunziata and Comfort came and went as they chose .
24 People came and went as she sat thinking about this .
25 Kitty still came and went as she pleased , borrowing money from both her sisters as well as Charlie , and never paying them back .
26 At the end of forty days Noah opened the window of the Ark , that he had made and sent out a raven which came and went until the waters upon the earth had dried up .
27 He had made and sent out a raven which came and went until the waters upon the earth had dried up .
28 Which came and went until the waters upon the earth had dried up .
29 But Hepzibah says if they ever had to leave and go where there were strangers about who did n't understand his sensitive ways , then he might have to be — well — what he said ] ’ He nodded at Frederick and said , in a low voice , ‘ Shut up in a mad house , or something . ’
30 ‘ I shall say what I like and go where I like , ’ said Osman .
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