Example sentences of "[pron] come and [verb] a " in BNC.

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1 I hope they do n't ask me to come and do a benefit concert up there .
2 I just went from person to person and asked if they needed help when a policeman asked me to come and take a look at Johnathan .
3 He woke late on the Sunday morning after their first week , sent Ingrid back to her Gasthaus , and wandered down to the coffee shop where several of them came and ate a late breakfast .
4 There were also four young ladies who came and gave a brief cabaret of dancing .
5 Barbara Norrice , who came and gave a session on teaching the disabled has agreed to staff the day .
6 Impulsively she came and placed a kiss on Leith 's cheek .
7 And it became difficult , so in the end , rather than committing myself when people phoned up saying can you come and do a job for me , rather than do it badly and not being there and being unreliable I 'd say : ‘ No .
8 I told him there was some , I said somebody was interested in , well he 's got back in touch and he said can you come and do a twenty minute spot at this hotel in Bedford and he said really , I mean he 's doing it
9 But then they got their own van and they did most of them , er but then again they they a called on us and said Can you come and do a little job for us ?
10 Have another little bit of your drink , Amy will you come and read a bit of your book to me ?
11 Will you come and take a look ?
12 Erm say say we 'd agreed that you know you come and you come and have a go er not have a go , we would like to think people stick with us because we 've got plenty for
13 But you can use the Jeannie slot as erm a revision thing , you come and have a chat with me about the course , or we can show the video .
14 Look here Paulie , you come and have a look at this .
15 There is the occasional policeman on his regular beat who comes and eats a paan or smokes a cigarette .
16 There 's one big friend now , he he comes up about , oh most weeks , we come and have a natter and er and one thing or another .
17 One of the man-things had seen them coming and shouted a warning .
18 It was to convince Karen , partly , that she 'd wanted her to come and have a holiday , to see it for herself .
19 I had just finished building a 16-track studio in my house and asked him to come and have a go on that equipment that even the very big studios did n't have .
20 What would you do if they came and built a hotel on this stretch of coast ?
21 They come and go a bit silently , of course , but that 's not to say they 're furtive . ’
22 Let them come and get a shock . ’
23 And , er , the upshot of all that was , I got a phone call , what , three weeks ago , from one of the papers saying , we 'd like to come and take your picture Mr cos we 're doing this article about on on er , on care services , so I said , okay , so he came and took a picture .
24 He came and had a glass of wine with us while we ate the meal he 'd cooked .
25 I showed it Tom next door , I says er , it , I says , he came and had a drink and to , and to see Evelyn and I says look you can tell Oliand and Dog Tongue
26 Even the winter times on it come and have a look .
27 ‘ Everything flat and grey , no real joy over anything , nothing to look forward to , just somehow getting through each day as it comes and giving a sigh of relief when it 's finally over .
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