Example sentences of "[noun] come and [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Load it up , arrange your features into a smirk and invite the nearest Mac user to come and have a butcher 's . |
| 2 | That 's the car come and have a sit for five minutes . |
| 3 | The aim is to encourage parents to come and have a look round the school and it seems to be working . |
| 4 | Bloke come and bought a Teletext with his friend , come all the way from Falmouth , he pulled on the front , paid me his money , saw the telly working , put the remote in his pocket , my son carried the telly down , put it in the back of the car the bloke shut the boot , he drove off the front , I picked up the phone he er and he just swung round off the front , the boot come open out come the telly ! |
| 5 | Malcolm Crosby says Oxford was always a hard place to come and get a result and he wants to make that so again |
| 6 | Robert come and carry a chest of drawers round will you ? |
| 7 | Inviting people into your home to partake of food and drink can be a modest invitation to one person to come and have a cup of coffee and a biscuit . |
| 8 | From living near the edge of a hot , steamy jungle in Army married quarters and coming back to England to live in a little house in Catterick Camp with snow everywhere , myself and my son , who was eight years old at the time , were sitting eating porridge feeling miserable and cold waiting for a plumber to come and mend a burst pipe . |
| 9 | It 's to do with the Government housing policy at national level , but there are certain things we can do , and I remember about two and a half years ago I arranged for a group of people to come and give a seminar to the Housing Committee . |
| 10 | er we have er a ski machine coming from Gloucester which is going to let people have a go and er get them in the right position , and when they do it right all the bells go off , so it 's a fun day for people to come and have a go on things . |
| 11 | Well , the inspector came and noticed a hole in the roof and told us to mend it . |
| 12 | A plumber came and installed a row of six washbasins in the cloakroom with running water , hot and cold at each , though they still had to run across the playground in all weathers to reach the outside lavatories . |
| 13 | Her father came and put a hand on her shoulder . |
| 14 | We decided , instead , to put him in an enclosure and to let the local people come and have a look at him . |
| 15 | We find winter is the time when most people come and have a chat to us ; we 've got a regular following of visitors and you get to know them quite well . |
| 16 | Further to the first point of order , is it an order for the press to hear about the proposed rise in prescription charges before this house and would n't it have not been better if the Secretary of State to come and made a statement and we could have questioned her about it . |
| 17 | Why did you leave such a good hospital to come and do a holiday job ? ’ |
| 18 | Following a frantic phone call from the Hygiene Manager of a major food producing client near York to come and identify a ‘ slug ’ , surveyor Bob Harris from Hull was presented with a leech which had mysteriously appeared right in the middle of the factory . |
| 19 | Having asked Jane Pargeter to come and give a formal statement at Chester Row , Blanche halted just outside the open door to the flat . |
| 20 | I was in agony until a doctor came and passed a catheter to drain the urine away . ’ |
| 21 | Asked by his doctor if he had recovered from flu , he said that he was fine but one of the clocks was going badly , and would the doctor come and have a look at it as soon as it was possible . |
| 22 | It is time for certain philosophers to come and take a hard look at the data which we have collected before they dismiss our models and our philosophical assumptions so glibly . |
| 23 | The in-service kind of erm activity is of course reflected in our , many of our courses , not merely in short courses , but in the fact that we run erm Masters courses , erm M As in Education of several kinds , and students in those courses are mainly teachers who have been released for a whole year to come and do a full-time course . |
| 24 | Accordingly I telephoned him quite early the next morning and received a cordial invitation to come and drink a cup of coffee with him in his home in Lord North Street . |
| 25 | Who would pay a small fortune to come and spend a week in a draughty Highland hotel miles away from the slopes , when they could get a package holiday to somewhere snowy , romantic and convenient in the Alps for half the price ? |
| 26 | So I shouted to Paul to come and have a look at it and he says well the cheeky bugger . |