Example sentences of "they come [adv] and [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They came up and fought for half an hour till they was both flat on their backs , on the waste land there . |
| 2 | I told the cleaning ladies and they came up and said , twiddled around with it and said that they could n't work out what was wrong and they were gon na get some engineers in or something , engineers ? |
| 3 | The sergeant was chasing you round and if they came round and saw you coming out of a shop , you had to have a good explanation . |
| 4 | They got a new one , they had another , then they had another idea then , they came round and had erm , had , turned round and said , right they done away with part of the wire and they got another big wheel so you can go right over the top next time , they done away with the big hook , so you could shackle your , your chain on to the wire , then you could go right over the top and then they get the old short chains like that . |
| 5 | But my friends really got me out afterwards , they came round and took me out . |
| 6 | On the morrow the Cid took Doña Ximena by the hand , and her daughters with her , and made them go up upon the highest tower of the Alcazar , and they looked toward the sea and saw the great power of the Moors , how they came on and drew nigh , and began to pitch their tents round about Valencia , beating their tambours and with great uproar . |
| 7 | Peter said it was a good game when they came home and found that Woking had won five nil they thought they 'd chosen the wrong one . |
| 8 | They said that in a political situation , if you had one side you could call it the thesis , say capitalism was the thesis and communism was the other side and that was the antithesis and that these two would one another and it was only when they came together and got their good points both of them adopted , that one was really going to get a satisfactory solution . |
| 9 | They came in and asked us to stop . |
| 10 | They came in and kissed her dutifully , with affection neither taken nor given ; Lilian , Clare , Olivia . |
| 11 | And they came in and chatted to us about it . |
| 12 | Then they came in and joined the others sitting round the fire . |
| 13 | ‘ When I watched them win 2–0 at Tottenham they kept it ever so tight , so I was surprised at how much they came out and attacked . ’ |
| 14 | I can always remember that yeah , I won a book called And then er when we came out pictures on Saturday afternoon , there always used to be a gentleman there and he 'd had a great big basket and he 'd like he 'd have a bag of sweets and oranges in these er basket and they used to give the children a bag of sweet and orange and they came out and see pictures for a penny . |
| 15 | They came out and gave him paracetemol and painkillers . |
| 16 | There was an owl whose names was Blanche perch bravely on a narrow branch when she asked if she could fly , the others said into the sky high , high , high , so one fine day they came out and stood on a branch all big and stout , she jumped , she thought that she could fly |
| 17 | They came down and took our suitcases into the house . |
| 18 | The birds flew up noisily , circled , and then they came down and settled in another tree not far away . |
| 19 | But then they came back and said it was changed to ‘ Everything We Do Is Driven By You ’ and my initial thought was ‘ Yuk , I do n't think I can do anything with that either , ’ because it just sounded like motor cars and I 'm not interested in singing songs about motor cars . |
| 20 | They came back and said there were three more like her . ’ |
| 21 | What we 're actually lo doing here is those of longer members who remember we used to have a thing called the area health authority which was proposed in a three tier structure by a corporation called the McKenzie corporation at great expense charity governed by three quarters of a million pounds to invent structure of the National Health Service nineteen seventy two some years later they came back and said , well give us another million pounds and we 'll go back and look at it again , and say actually we were wrong , and they abolished the areas , and produced districts ! |
| 22 | Sometime later they came back and said , " We think we 've found somebody . " |
| 23 | and erm they came back and visited the mother and baby home too . |
| 24 | And they came back and did n't hear anything . |
| 25 | Well they used to have a little rowing boat and come after it , he used to get one of the lads while they come ashore and got his dinner . |
| 26 | If you hang about after 10pm they come over and say ‘ If you lot ai n't out of here in five minutes , you 're nicked , the lot of you . ’ |
| 27 | When they come on and say , Yeah no I have n't advertised before that will cost me extra money . |
| 28 | Now people do n't come here and say , Oh I 'll have a look at somebody else , they come here and buy . |
| 29 | There is need to emphasise the importance of encouraging people to re , receive some sort of training when they come forward and offer to be involved in the work of our under eights and young people . |
| 30 | And they come round and sweep up outside or you know near enough every day . |