Example sentences of "come [coord] gone " in BNC.

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1 Illnesses , including chronic muscle debility , herpes , tremors and eye infections , have come and gone .
2 Illnesses , including chronic muscle debility , herpes , tremors and eye infections , have come and gone .
3 ‘ Illness , including chronic muscle debility , herpes , tremors and eye infections have come and gone .
4 In the years since 1961 , Eastern European dictators have come and gone , moves afoot in South Africa hold hope for the future , and countries abolishing the death penalty are on the increase .
5 Patrician insolence has quite often appeared to express a perception of the activities of the levelling Labour governments which have come and gone since 1945 .
6 Two league Saturdays have already come and gone .
7 Others who have come and gone include Anthony Simonds-Gooding , former chairman and chief executive of the communications division , who left in October 1987 and later joined British Satellite Broadcasting .
8 She had been part of a long stream of women who had come and gone swiftly , lives collapsing in one area as they gained power and certainty in another .
9 When the doctor had come and gone and the place was quiet again , Richard put on his dressing gown and tiptoed across .
10 The financial booms of takeovers , junk bonds , bundling and unbundling have come and gone , leaving behind successes and failures but also — and most importantly — some powerful lobbies among the losers .
11 Not entirely to my surprise , I discovered there had been a frenzy of activity in my absence , and number four hundred and fifteen had come and gone .
12 People had come and gone in the little crowd .
13 Wolfenden had come and gone , but persecution was still abroad in the streets and back lanes of Tyneside .
14 You 'll be remembered long after the occupants of Number 10 have come and gone . ’
15 The trail seemed obvious enough , but my intended killer had come and gone that way — must have done — and if he should return for any reason I would n't want to meet him .
16 Many fashions such as the kipper tie and the string tie have come and gone , and in recent years there has been an upsurge in the popularity of vivid colours and flamboyant designs .
17 The Foxton Lift seems almost to have come and gone in secret ; the remains at Foxton were until recently as mysterious to most people as the Iron Age hill fort at Burrough on the Hill on another side of Leicestershire .
18 In a 30 year span , electrification has come and gone .
19 Within 20 years , factories have come and gone , and sidings are now redundant .
20 At some stage a nine-hole course also existed on Ewelme Common but little is known of it , and other courses are likely to have come and gone .
21 Much of the power and prestige it went on to gain derived from the fact that unlike other such organizations which have come and gone , it managed to keep its numbers extremely low , thus giving this claim some credibility .
22 For instance , is n't it odd that World AIDS Day , the theme of which for 1990 was Women and AIDS , has come and gone , with no change for lesbians — no information , no acknowledgement , no nothing .
23 A delicious tray of fresh Severn salmon sandwiches had come and gone as had several more rounds of drinks , and Yanto was getting restless .
24 The Chinese , as is well known , have all the time in the world ; ‘ next spring ’ has come and gone .
25 Since then the spots have come and gone with a period of roughly 11 years .
26 Mini Tours have come and gone and low-key Satellite and Regional Tours are there for the young players who aspire to get on the main Tour .
27 Another wet summer has come and gone .
28 Superintendent Clive Fothergill said : ‘ We would have taken appropriate measures to ensure he could have come and gone like any other team manager . ’
29 Various other formats have come and gone over the years , but these are the ones which have become established and likely to remain for the foreseeable future .
30 When Celia appeared to go from bad to worse , Brian had advertised for a housekeeper and two had come and gone in quick succession , the first merely saying that the post was not to her ‘ fancy ’ , the second giving a fuller more blatant explanation : that she did not want to work in a household where there was nervous trouble .
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