Example sentences of "came and go [subord] " in BNC.

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1 She came and went while he was out , tidying up , laying the table for his evening meal , and no doubt reading his letters and looking in his drawers to see if he had a rupture belt or kept a stock of contraceptives .
2 Many announced , leaked , and predicted dates for unveiling the Clinton plan came and went before the maestro of the Reagan image was improbably summoned to manage the case of Bill Clinton .
3 Shimon Peres ' best chance of forming a government probably came and went when two members of an orthodox religious party caused an uproar in parliament while renegeing on a promise to join the Labour Party coalition .
4 He is a volatile character , far more so than me , and he came and went as he pleased .
5 Robert seems to have had a special affection for the Orynthia ; whereas many mariners came and went as the whim took them , he stuck to his old ship .
6 Rufus would n't have bothered , he came and went as he pleased , and anyway did n't believe parents should be pandered to in this way .
7 They each came and went as they pleased .
8 She no longer needed a constant attendant by then and Annunziata and Comfort came and went as they chose .
9 People came and went as she sat thinking about this .
10 Kitty still came and went as she pleased , borrowing money from both her sisters as well as Charlie , and never paying them back .
11 At the end of forty days Noah opened the window of the Ark , that he had made and sent out a raven which came and went until the waters upon the earth had dried up .
12 He had made and sent out a raven which came and went until the waters upon the earth had dried up .
13 Which came and went until the waters upon the earth had dried up .
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