Example sentences of "come in and [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One evening , David , Barry , Christina and John Hutchinson were all sitting in my front room and talking about what we could actually do to earn some money It was suggested that we might go down to one of the local pubs which held regular jazz nights , to see if they had an evening free and perhaps we could run a folk club just one evening a week and maybe charge people to come in and make a few pennies for ourselves . |
| 2 | But er we shall be without him for the next fortnight erm so somebody 'll have to come in and score a few goals for us but often you know , you discover things that erm you never knew were there when you have to fill in gaps that have suddenly arisen . |
| 3 | The music grew louder , the Chelsea Granada welcomed all who would like to come in and watch the transmission of Bootsie and Snudge . |
| 4 | For some years a man used to come in and do the deed , but Uncle got on with it himself later round by the stable , using a humane killer . |
| 5 | He used to come in and do the flowers , all in the dining-room before the dinner was served ; and it used to look glorious . |
| 6 | You see a working , well of course they do get them up nowadays , but in th you were supposed t to stay in bed for at least a fortnight after the mother was born but you a lot of these mothers used to hop out of bed when the midwife had gone , and , and I mean if they 'd got two or three children and a husband coming in and they had n't got a mother or a neighbour or somebody to come in and do the cooking , i I mean she 'd just get up and get on with it herself . |
| 7 | Or do you mean you paid a lot of tradesmen to come in and do the work for you ? |
| 8 | There was no sign of any other cars or tanks or armoured personnel carriers and no indication that the police Stukas were waiting to come in and bomb the last pockets of resistance . |
| 9 | If the bags are full of rotting food , or there is a smell or filth around the place , then more action may need to be taken , but the first priority is establishing what the person concerned feels , before asking ‘ Would it be helpful for someone to come in and give a hand with tidying up ? ’ |
| 10 | to come in and blitz the place from top too bottom and if we just have them once a fortnight , the in between weekend I can whiz round , |
| 11 | Dr Maurice Hankey , land use specialist with the Scottish Landowners ' Federation , said : ‘ Water services in Scotland are unique in Great Britain in that they have the right to come in and lay a water sewerage pipe without the landowner 's consent . |
| 12 | ‘ Water services in Scotland … have the right to come in and lay a water sewerage pipe without the landowner 's consent . ’ |
| 13 | Unstoppable , and so tailor-made for success it 's like them lying there , legs akimbo , waiting for the major companies to come in and shag the ass off them . |
| 14 | They they will have the same script almost and say this is a free of charge item , all we need from you is this this and this and if you 're interested I 'm gon na ask a marketing executive to come in and agree a contract with you . |
| 15 | They finished ‘ Christians awake ’ and we begged them to come in and have a glass of wine and a mince pie with us . |
| 16 | ‘ I felt I had to come in and have a drink , because I did need one so . |
| 17 | D' you — d' you want to come in and have a cup of tea ? ’ |
| 18 | That 's right , I just , I always say to them you 're welcome to come in and have a coffee you know , I do n't really , I 've got me own views , I 'm not really interested in what you 've got to tell me , I know all about it , but you know you 're welcome to come in |
| 19 | Oh they had good nights and there were always a crowd of boys there and they used to come in and pinch the . |
| 20 | He liked to come in and find the family gathered under one roof . |
| 21 | ‘ They spotted it on the equipment in the pits , so they were screaming at me to come in and get the tyres changed . ’ |
| 22 | Almost a town in itself , Dunlaoghaire was some miles from the centre of Dublin , a big harbour where the mail boat came in and left every day for Holyhead bringing the holiday visitors . |
| 23 | A young man , dark , short , burly , in a navy guernsey and jeans and gumboots , came in and lifted the coal bags into the Land-Rover beside my cases . |
| 24 | Crowds of people went out and a young clergyman came in and ordered a pint of bitter . |
| 25 | She still had n't found an answer when the housekeeper came in and served the first course . |
| 26 | And then Luke came in and said the fire was fine and that he 'd bashed the cushions up a bit , to make it all OK for them . |
| 27 | Frau Schmidt came in and said the gentlemen were here and please , should she bring coffee in now or later . |
| 28 | ‘ We were singing There was a Princess Long Ago and had just got to the last verse , ‘ Now everybody 's happy now ’ , when the headmistress came in and said the King had died . |
| 29 | Jean Sparse , Toddington Drive , Norton , Stockton : I was 16 years old and working in my late father 's general dealers shop in Hartlepool when a customer came in and said the King had died . |
| 30 | M.E. Railton , Harcourt Street , Hopetown , Darlington : I was working at the Broadway Cafe in Darlington when one of the customers came in and said the King had died . |