Example sentences of "come [conj] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Boats come and go at the waterfront |
| 2 | Between whiles she got up and looked out of the window , watching the pale sunshine come and go on the elaborate mouldings and cornices of the offices on the opposite side of Hand and Ball Court , until she realized she was being watched from a window of the floor above by two young men in shirtsleeves . |
| 3 | To avoid their notice , and give them time to get clear of the folded valley before he ventured it , he turned on a contour course towards Ruthyn , and kept in the fringes of the forest , watching the glint of steel come and go on the track lower down the slope , drawing steadily nearer to him , but some half-mile below . |
| 4 | What do people say in Ridgery Butts about those who come and go into the forest , those strange people you speak of ? ’ |
| 5 | After Tomkins had served the second glass , Robins looked at me almost quizzically , and said , ‘ I 've seen a few doctors come and go in the islands , but you do n't seem to fit into the usual pattern . ’ |
| 6 | According to Paasi , therefore , a region is an institutionalized division of space , and is more than the myriad individual places which come and go in the lives of their creators . |
| 7 | It 's one shot wonders and weird groups that come and go in the bat of an eye — this strange serendipity that happens . ’ |
| 8 | It 's one shot wonders and weird groups that come and go in the bat of an eye — this strange serendipity that happens . ’ |
| 9 | Then we used to sniff , you know , and Mrs come and knocked on the front door says er , our house is asleep do you mind not playing , you know . |
| 10 | She come and knocked on the door so he |
| 11 | And when she come and knocked on the door she was upset more than we was cos she done it did n't |
| 12 | Come , come and swear on the moon that you will love me always … ’ |
| 13 | Come and join in the celebrations throughout the year . |
| 14 | come and sit at the table and wait , come on , put those away |
| 15 | Come and sit by the fire . |
| 16 | ‘ Come and sit by the fire and get warm , ’ he instructed , interrupting her thoughts . |
| 17 | ‘ Come and sit by the window with me , ’ she said . |
| 18 | Come in , come and sit in the front room . |
| 19 | " Come and sit in the car . " |
| 20 | okay colleague , come and wait at the front , alright . |
| 21 | Come and look at the place , William had said , it 's like everyone 's dream of a Victorian childhood . |
| 22 | ‘ Come and look at the fireplaces , ’ said William , and they filed dutifully into the room Tess had just come out of . |
| 23 | Come and look at the map . " |
| 24 | ‘ Come and look at the scene . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ Will it be all right , ’ she ventured to say , ‘ if I come and look at the orchids tomorrow ? ’ |
| 26 | come and look at the gates sub- contract planning committee which has already had a look at that |
| 27 | You may see a guy wandering in and out groups and that 's a guy called Geoff who works for the British National Corpus and these are the people who are trying to have or produce ten million words of the written word and a hundred million erm spoken words , which is a corpus whereby , er come and look at the English language at some time in the future and identify and listen to some of your and your dialects and what you said so make sure you have lots of input as we 've got quite a broad spectrum of different dialects today but he 'll be wandering in and out er throughout today . |
| 28 | There as they come and look over the cities , small city , and they see the fields there around the city with the grain waving in the breeze ready and ripe just waiting to be harvested . |
| 29 | Come and work for the GPO . |
| 30 | Most schools that have gone grant maintained have declined to use the D S O. Now my concern is , erm that we 're not actually , when we come and compare with the outside world , we 're not actually giving the service that we may think we are . |