Example sentences of "come and [verb] i [verb] " in BNC.

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1 So this was quite a mission which I believe has not been adequately covered in the history and was a forerunner of things to come and like I say we got through that mission without any damage , our gunners got to shoot at the first German fighters and we were an experienced crew with one mission under our belt .
2 Towards the end he could no longer fend for himself and good neighbours used to come and help me get him up out of bed and into a chair .
3 Now he says he wants to come and see me working .
4 ‘ I want people to come and see me playing Billy , not Adrian Boswell , in the same way as they went to watch Michael Crawford , not Frank Spencer . ’
5 Jan erm I 've just recently started a job as a drama teacher and I must say there is n't actually anything in the programme that 's actually on my A level syllabus for drama and I think it might be something er it a help to schools if maybe there was a play put on specifically schools to come and see I think to comment on . .
6 ‘ They both love sport and have no time for show business — except sometimes they like to come and hear me sing .
7 Well that happened and er I was man and er they er brought me all the odd jobs that was going about and they used to go down the warehouse and er there was a fellow there , well a woman more than anything , know 'd where every thing was and in no time at all they showed me where the things were and er I er , young , it was in my memory , and in no time at all the men in the shop used to come and ask me to get them something from out the warehouse for this and that and the other .
8 Your cousin warned me off again , we had a little set-to in the pub , so I thought I 'd better come and make me mark . ’
9 ‘ The warder came and told me to dress and led me to an officer of the court , ’ the small , self-effacing lawyer recalled in an interview on Saturday .
10 He came and helped me lay it all in which was very nice .
11 However , later David did come and see me to ask if his group could play on the school steps at the PTA fête which was to be held in the summer , so I suppose that was one of his first public engagements with his group .
12 ‘ Sometimes at the weekend Mr Rosenbloom would come and ask me to iron his shirts .
13 ‘ You can come and help me to carry some pictures , George dear , ’ she said to young Curdle , who was skipping about the playground .
14 ‘ It 's all the bloody same to me , so when you 've finished acting like a six-year-old will you come and help me unpack ? ’
15 ‘ Could you come and help me get it out ? ’
16 No , she co come and told me did you ask Emma out ?
17 Come and let me put on your sand shoes . ’
18 Come and let me see your lovely face . ’
19 Well come and let me look at them .
20 Come and help me dish this dinner up .
21 But after all the trouble that he himself had taken to be friendly , he felt so cross at the way in which Fiver had antagonized their new friends that as he passed Bigwig , he said , " Come and help me to get some sense into him .
22 ‘ Please someone come and help me look for him . ’
23 Mum , come and help me look .
24 " You come and watch me cutting the grass , " Quentin suggested , but the twins shook their heads , not understanding because such a long time had passed since there 'd last been grass-cutting .
25 At the time I used to think : ‘ I wish my mum and dad were like other people and come and watch me play and be involved with the football . ’
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