Example sentences of "had come and [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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1 | In fairness to the young girls who had come and gone over the years , he had deliberately picked well-stacked , dimwitted types whose only claim to fame was the fact that they were a good lay . |
2 | Two trains had come and gone on the northbound platform of the Bakerloo line at Marylebone tube station , but Harry had boarded neither . |
3 | Favourites , reform commissions and ordinances had come and gone with no sign of improvement either in the king 's government or in public order ; indeed , the realm was now in a state of virtual brigandage . |
4 | She had come and gone like a shadow . |
5 | People had come and gone in the little crowd . |