Example sentences of "come [adv] and [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You should 've come and knocked for me cos you could 've come in and played computer and everything . |
| 2 | She had never heard anyone come in and had never expected it . |
| 3 | I drank my coffee and listened while you talked about the Government 's commitment to looking at the quality of life you should be working towards for our people ( or that we should be working towards for your people — I am not quite sure whether your use of the words ‘ we ’ and ‘ our ’ included me or not ) ; but before I could raise the questions that remained in my mind from the night before — let alone my new uncertainty as to what exactly was meant by the expression ‘ the quality of life ’ — a young man had come in and murmured something to you about ‘ the Governor ’ and ‘ the Bank ’ . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ Water services in Scotland … have the right to come in and lay a water sewerage pipe without the landowner 's consent . ’ |
| 6 | After each show I want to come outside and hit those guys in the nose . |
| 7 | By the time I had come downstairs and made it over the mali 's trenchworks , Balvinder had polished the bonnet so bright he could curl his moustache in the reflection . |
| 8 | They fought like tigers for twenty years ; he drank — talk about liking a spot of Christmas cheer , he liked it all the year round — used to come home and beat her " |
| 9 | Duncan Campbell Macewan , who for ten years had managed a sheep station in Australia bigger than Islay , had come home and claimed he was the oldest feuer in Bowmore and was one of the few whose feu was for life " while water runs and grass grows , " When the chairman asked " Do you suffer from late harvests ? " he was told " Sometimes , not very often . " |
| 10 | Duncan Campbell Macewan , who for ten years had managed a sheep station in Australia bigger than Islay , had come home and claimed he was the oldest feuer in Bowmore and was one of the few whose feu was for life " while water runs and grass grows , " When the chairman asked " Do you suffer from late harvests ? " he was told " Sometimes , not very often . " |
| 11 | Er , because he 's got to come out and read it . |
| 12 | I says , he do n't have to come out and read that at all ! |
| 13 | Then I had to come back and read Shakespeare . |
| 14 | But when you do , you 'd better be prepared for him to come back and hit you on your arms , your chest , that big belly of yours and finally the chin . |
| 15 | ‘ They are one of the few teams that have come here and attacked us and they did a good job , ’ he said . |
| 16 | Before she had managed it , she heard Glyn 's voice , and it seemed of the utmost importance that he did not begin to get to know the man who had come here and turned her small world upside-down so quickly . |
| 17 | Glyn was a lawyer , a partner in Rushton and Clarke , a firm who had been the family solicitors for several years , since her teenage years when she and her mother had come here and stopped roaming and moving at last . |
| 18 | Yeah come , tell your Mum to come here and lay back like this and let her touch my cock . |
| 19 | It has been suggested that Chaucer had come across and drew upon all of these sources for his Shipman 's Tale . |
| 20 | ‘ Perhaps Nigel had come earlier and killed him and then arranged to come back and find the body . ’ |
| 21 | Since that was highlighted , several witnesses have come forward and told Gilmour 's lawyer , Gordon Ritchie , that they were aware of a lorry-driver acting suspiciously on the afternoon of the murder . |
| 22 | Today at the fringe meeting where seventy odd people attended , I 've been inundated by people who 've come forward and said we wan na raise it , we wan na put instructions on the machines that dispense these . |
| 23 | ‘ We could have come round and had a chat instead of having every foot patrol and Panda car in the bloody Met wandering around checking the numbers on every pigging black cab in town . |
| 24 | If only he had known enough , he might have come privately and hoped for a reward ! |
| 25 | He said someone had brought him a chair and he had begun to come round and had felt fine . |
| 26 | He came slowly and sat beside us . |
| 27 | Three and he just came on and played the piano . |
| 28 | West Ham 's Clive Allen came on and followed on from Julian Dick 's telling run through Swindon 's midfield . |
| 29 | Even when Allen came on and scored it did n't make any difference . |
| 30 | And they were all relaxing and I was playing the piano and people were all gathered round saying , ‘ You hit it with the poker , and I 'll lock the lid ’ — but somebody came on and said ‘ This girl is marvellous , give her a job . ’ |