Example sentences of "[noun sg] 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 | 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 ! |
| 4 | Malcolm Crosby says Oxford was always a hard place to come and get a result and he wants to make that so again |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Well , the inspector came and noticed a hole in the roof and told us to mend it . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Her father came and put a hand on her shoulder . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Why did you leave such a good hospital to come and do a holiday job ? ’ |
| 12 | I was in agony until a doctor came and passed a catheter to drain the urine away . ’ |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 ? |