Example sentences of "come in and [verb] " 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 | Next day at school , Noel 's come in and gone to Scott , you bastard ! |
| 3 | She had never heard anyone come in and had never expected it . |
| 4 | They put Jenny [ Phil 's wife ] in a grotty old side ward so that she did n't upset any other of the patients , no one come in and tell us anything . |
| 5 | He had come in and asked to see Peter . |
| 6 | ‘ But after he sat down and thought about it he has come in and apologised to the lads and realised he maybe should not have said it . |
| 7 | 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 ’ . |
| 8 | I can arrange to have someone come in and clear up this mess in the morning after the fingerprint team have finished . ’ |
| 9 | Her response was , ‘ You 'd better come in and give it to her yourself . ’ |
| 10 | He 's come in and disciplined us . |
| 11 | I was passing when I saw the gates not shut properly , so I thought I 'd best come in and see if everything was all right at the house … ’ |
| 12 | Sir Ranulph 's wife , Lady Virginia Fiennes , speaking from her remote Exmoor farm , said : ‘ All I know is that they asked to be picked up and the pick-up has come in and got them . |
| 13 | ‘ If you do n't live close , you 'd better come in and share our top floor . |
| 14 | ‘ Ah — ’ David began , but , before he could look at them , Sister had come in and picked them up . |
| 15 | With images of picket-line strife , the broadcast warned : ‘ The last thing we need now is for Labour to come in and wreck Britain 's recovery . ’ |
| 16 | Whether we know him or not whether we 've never had any dealings with him in the past or not , he is able to bring peace once we allow him to come in and to take control of the situation . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Weeks fifteen to twenty one is subject specific and all the details that have to come in and make up a record of achievement . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | The music grew louder , the Chelsea Granada welcomed all who would like to come in and watch the transmission of Bootsie and Snudge . |
| 21 | They do n't want the experts to come in and advise because it is the experts that have let them down . ’ |
| 22 | Anyway tapped on window for told me to come in and says will you tell your mate to move his car . |
| 23 | ‘ Arthur got an electrician to come in and do it during the week . ’ |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Or you could do what my elderly neighbour does : every time she feels like decorating she pays a neighbour 's student son to come in and do it for her . |
| 26 | I get a maid to come in and do it for me . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Or do you mean you paid a lot of tradesmen to come in and do the work for you ? |
| 30 | saying you 've got ta train somebody on the list for instance , you 've got to have a specialist to come in and do that so it 's not something you do yourself . |