Example sentences of "[vb past] come and [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They sent him delivery order but he failed to come and collect the rice . |
| 2 | ‘ Father always kept in touch with Peter and he planned to come and see us when he got leave from France , where he was stationed . |
| 3 | And reluctantly MacArthur agreed to come and talk to the president . |
| 4 | ‘ They tried to come and play football , and battled well . |
| 5 | By the time Pie had played both the children to sleep , and rose to come and join his guest at the table , the liquor had brought a pleasant buzz to Estabrook 's head . |
| 6 | Now it seemed to come and go on the wind . |
| 7 | Oh Sunday it was really bad cos he had these people turn up for lunch and erm , said it 's Sam arranged to come and collect him quarter to six and then we went up to Fore Gate for lunch and then we came back here and had erm we were all standing in the kitchen here , knock on the door , a walked in , I 'd completely forgotten about it |
| 8 | Also , she was now trapped here until he decided to come and fetch her , and she knew she would miss him daily . |
| 9 | When Princess Flavia read this , she was very worried and she decided to come and see me . |
| 10 | Once the amazing facts had been revealed to Kirsty during the course of her regression , she only needed to come and see me one more time . |
| 11 | And Jesus , he meant to come and bring peace . |
| 12 | It would be quite unjust to end the story there , for years later , a very pretty WAAF officer I knew came and asked if my wife and I would come to her wedding reception to be held at Claridges . |
| 13 | And they kept coming and coming to me just the same . |
| 14 | I think Leonora Stem has made a tentative identification with a young Mr Thomas Hearst of Richmond who liked to come and play the oboe with the ladies . |
| 15 | And if I did come and sit face to face across the desk , it would have a discipline . |
| 16 | ‘ Even if Elaine did come and go very quickly , Miss Rose would have had something to do with it . ’ |
| 17 | And you never did come and have a cup . ’ |
| 18 | We did come and have a look at a shop down here . |
| 19 | However , later David did come and see me to ask if his group could play on the school steps at the PTA fête which was to be held in the summer , so I suppose that was one of his first public engagements with his group . |
| 20 | ‘ It would be so nice if you did come and live near us when you 're married , ’ said Jannie wistfully . |
| 21 | I got come and have a look at it . |
| 22 | During the next few weeks the thoughts continued to come and go . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Sylvia had started to hallucinate , seeing creepy-crawlies on her bed , and the houseman had to come and sort her out . |
| 25 | He was aware that Members had to come and go at irregular intervals at the behest of their lords and masters when the House was in session , but he feared the worst . |
| 26 | The family had you see the family had to come and tell him where the grave was . |
| 27 | Her husband had to come and take her away from me , which was really quite fortunate . |
| 28 | Every weekend there was some little reference to the danger of someone realising what was going on , and last Tuesday night too , when I had to come and see for myself if you were all right because the first reports of the earthquake were so horrifying . |
| 29 | In any case , someone had to come and try to sort things out . |
| 30 | And only two amazing misses , one of those candidly coming er just before scored the second Notts goal , with a headed chance headed wide when er had come and missed it , and when on forty four minutes on the watch but not a minute before the end of half time if you get the meaning because we had that long period of extra time , er missed the chance completely , he 'd made the er Pisa goal brilliantly with a cross from the right hand side , deep cross , pulled back brilliantly , but left with a chance , the number eleven in front of the post , well what was he doing ? again had come and again he 'd missed it and left with an open goal was wide of the target . |