Example sentences of "came and [verb] him " in BNC.
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| 1 | A fifteen-year-old in grey flannel wandering around London in school holidays with an adolescent 's apocalyptic vision , praying that he would lose his virginity before the bombs came and blasted him to oblivion . |
| 2 | Seb was out harrowing one of his own fields when the young stable-hand came and told him of Christian 's arrival . |
| 3 | She came and kissed him in her brisk way . |
| 4 | She came and kissed him like an anteater , and he went out of the door . |
| 5 | Sure enough , the wolf came and devoured him ; only his skull was left which went on reiterating the prophecy of doom for Rome . |
| 6 | ‘ Because my fa — his father came and took him away to Hambury . ’ |
| 7 | She had another kid as well , you know , but his father came and took him away when he was a baby . |
| 8 | He just sobbed until someone came and took him away . ’ |
| 9 | It looked as if we would have to take him out but an older Asian boy came and took him away , and he went quite confidently . |
| 10 | But then other Goddams [ This is what the French used to call us English ] came and took him away . ’ |
| 11 | They never came and bawled him or nattered for it . |
| 12 | Then months of lonely captivity in a small cage in a closed place where the wind did not blow , and other men came and examined him and time passing into blankness . |
| 13 | He lay awake through the night wishing he could go home or into the sitting room and watch a horror movie , and then , as the room paled with the threat of day , he drifted into an uneasy sleep , finally waking in full light with a foul taste in his mouth and the disjointed memory of a dream in which he was trapped in a lift dressed in women 's underwear and wondering how to explain it when the fire brigade finally came and rescued him . |
| 14 | But he could be ready for anything ; for the churches which had abandoned him ; for the churches like the Philippian one which had continued to care ; for hunger ; for plenty ; for the times when he had no obvious human support , and for the times when his fellow believers came and gave him encouragement . |
| 15 | it was a it was full pass inside to two fullbacks er , for the Southampton player that was running on this fullback shaded it away you know , guiding him out of it , he 's running to the e sa Smeichel came out to the edge of the area but he was like right on the edge as the player was coming to him , so he just let it roll a little bit further , he stopped it with his foot , the guy came and tackled him off got it instead of just picking it up with his hand , I mean he was actually in the area but like he was right on the edge and he took a step back |