Example sentences of "[noun sg] come and [verb] [art] " 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 | Weeks of it because the after the put in all his markings the admiralty came and checked the whole thing then . |
| 3 | Whenever the chest was brought in by the Levites to the King 's officials and they saw that there was a large amount of money , the royal secretary and the officer of the chief priest came and emptied the chest and carried it back to its place . |
| 4 | That 's the car come and have a sit for five minutes . |
| 5 | Then the water board came and dug the cable up . ’ |
| 6 | It was a stunning sight , and as I lay idly in the boulders that are reputed to have fallen 1600 metres and half a mile from the South Face of La Meije to the Chatelleret , I thought of the climb to come and let the daylight drift over me . |
| 7 | I covered my face and the girl came and put the wine down on the table . |
| 8 | 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 ! |
| 9 | ‘ If a cop comes and finds the car , with me in it , I would n't know what to do . ’ |
| 10 | Malcolm Crosby says Oxford was always a hard place to come and get a result and he wants to make that so again |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Er , with three ladies and a gentleman come and support the pensioner , I mean this is really great ! |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Well , the inspector came and noticed a hole in the roof and told us to mend it . |
| 15 | Central Television came and made an interview/ documentary film for their weekly current affairs programme Central Lobby , during the course of which I was seen driving around the neighbourhood , first preceding and then followed by the camera crew . |
| 16 | They might all be out of a job if the Factory Commission came and shut the place down . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Immediately , a cloud of mist hid them from their pursuers and , before it cleared , a messenger came and called the Dragoons off to another duty . |
| 19 | Her father came and put a hand on her shoulder . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Well that 's the man came and surveyed the site for the conservatory . |
| 22 | Yes and eventually Shirley and I thought , well I mean , we spent weeks grouting , we grouted and we grouted and still water was coming through and we grouted and at last it seemed to be dry and the man came and did the re-artexing on the insurance and I had wa new wallpaper put up , for which I paid extra because he only allowed eight pounds a roll , the insurance company only pays eight pounds a roll and I had eleven pound wallpaper and a border and having got the whole thing up the s the patches have appeared again ! |
| 23 | Man comes and tills the fields and lies beneath , And after many a summer dies the swan . |
| 24 | Why did you leave such a good hospital to come and do a holiday job ? ’ |
| 25 | I was in agony until a doctor came and passed a catheter to drain the urine away . ’ |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | It shares many features with other stories found among many peoples : a spirit or evil demon makes a sudden attack on a traveller at night ; the traveller is quite unprepared , and the demon means to kill him ; nevertheless , in the life and death struggle that ensues the traveller manages to get the upper hand , and before the dawn comes and robs the demon of its power , he extorts from it something of its supernatural strength . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Sober reflection would have shown him that the sensible procedure would have been to phone the police and get them to ask the Bomb Disposal Squad to come and check the bag out . |
| 30 | 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 . |