Example sentences of "[noun pl] come and [verb] " in BNC.
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| 31 | They 've seen teaching machines come and go . |
| 32 | Businesses come and go with alarming frequency . |
| 33 | Trade marks are especially important in a fast-moving industry and it is very comforting to buy goods with familiar names when so many products and businesses come and go in rapid succession , as happened with microcomputers in the early 1980s . |
| 34 | Names come and go in fashionable cycles . |
| 35 | So many empires come and gone |
| 36 | Storms come and go . |
| 37 | Storms come and go and people get flooded . |
| 38 | ‘ Why ca n't bloody rabbits come and eat my lawns ? ’ |
| 39 | ‘ My gut feeling is that interest rates come and go , ’ says Mr Terry . |
| 40 | Birdies , birdies come and get your food . |
| 41 | Why is it that presidents come and go and yet accomplish so relatively little ? |
| 42 | WHEN London friends come and spend the day with me in Hastings , the first thing they all want to do is sample the fish and chips . |
| 43 | Unfortunately when other divisions come and use it they seem to think they can pick up the caravan and there 'll be a wonderful display in there |
| 44 | Elected councillors form the majority on these committees and have ultimate authority and responsibility for them , although in practice the education officers , who remain in post while councillors come and go , are often very influential . |
| 45 | Detective Constable Loring drove along the promenades of the south coast towns , calling at police stations and paying particular attention to those clubs and cafes and amusement halls where girls come and go and pass each other . |
| 46 | It will not list them all because small magazines come and go , flourish for a while then ‘ die , that poetry may live ’ , as Gertrude Stein said . |
| 47 | 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 . ’ |
| 48 | In reality , the household is a constantly changing social unit as members age and other members come and go ( Pahl , J. 1984 , p. 201 ) . |
| 49 | We ca n't go on paying ourselves that sort of money , we ca n't go on , and Mr I know in a minute we 'll talk about the number of people who attend committee meetings erm and sit in on them , and that 's increased considerably , erm , so I think it 's important that we do get down to this problem , we grasp the nettle , and I , I believe that will mean that we start to look seriously at reducing the number of times members come and talk here , and perhaps we let the officers get on with the action that they should be getting on with |
| 50 | ‘ Ronnie Moran and Roy Evans have been through a lot and seen a lot of players come and go . |
| 51 | He has seen music legends come and go but , until the end of this month , Fluff has fought and won his battle with time . |
| 52 | And so he turns aside under a pine tree , lays his sword and oliphant under him and lies down to die : he makes his confession , holds up his right glove to God and angels come and carry his soul to Paradise . |
| 53 | Men come and go in their lives . |
| 54 | That 's why I 've decided to let his wife and children come and see him . |
| 55 | Till three police come and got hold of them . |
| 56 | Well , when you 've got five minutes come and knock 's door . |
| 57 | Almost like new roses themselves , chemical insecticides and fungicides come and go with remarkable rapidity . |
| 58 | Westerners come and go , crowding into the Marriott , Warsaw 's only top-class hotel , but few bother to set up shop . |
| 59 | She found a jasmine-scented corner of garden at the side of the house and sat down on a rustic wooden seat , watching twittering birds come and go fearlessly around a hanging seed basket . |
| 60 | Parents ' groups come and go whether or not there are CMHTs and it is difficult to be precise about the CMHT contribution in this field . |