Example sentences of "come and [vb past] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first delivery of post came and went on that fateful day , no letter . |
| 2 | Tenants came and went with great rapidity . |
| 3 | Wycliffe said that he did , which was something of a record , for Franks 's secretaries came and went with bewildering frequency , though all were to a common stamp . |
| 4 | Tributers , who raised the actual ore , came and went with more freedom . |
| 5 | Ten Tory MPs who came and went in mysterious circumstances |
| 6 | The forms of criminal or lawless activity which have followed the civil rights movement which came and went in 1969–71 will disappear as and when there is a general conviction that there is going to be one society and one particular sort of society in Northern Ireland — that is to say , one state , one particular sort of state , and no other . |
| 7 | Three presidents came and went in those turbulent times . |
| 8 | Two young Romanians came and stood on either side of me at the mirror . |
| 9 | ( And the chap is alive now , I expect , that lived down there in St Margaret 's Low Street ; and he come and stood like that there : he did n't know what to do . |