Example sentences of "[pers pn] come and [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If they do , it is thought unwise to allow them to come and settle in this country by and large . |
| 2 | ‘ In the end we asked them to come and sit at the back of the stage , ’ Miss Picon recalled . |
| 3 | We managed to persuade them to come and sit with us and she ended up next to me . |
| 4 | ‘ Well , whoever told you it is n't allowed , tell them to come and tell me , ’ I said , and I took the child outside . |
| 5 | He had n't wanted them to come and disturb his peace , that was obvious . |
| 6 | I 'm going to phone home and reverse the charges and get them to come and fetch me . |
| 7 | Very kindly , Carole and Ben Meadows invited them to come and stay over the weekend . |
| 8 | ‘ Yes , and I hope you 're going to approve , because I 've made arrangements for them to come and stay here . |
| 9 | The director , Mr Lee , she said , had written to the parents , inviting them to come and talk . |
| 10 | The parents had n't been offered any sort of advice or counselling ; they had all received a letter from Paul Lee inviting them to come and talk to his department , but no one had offered them any information about their children ; if they wanted that they had to ring up the department and ask for it . |
| 11 | Not like , I mean I was making my way there , he was making his way there and I would n't want them to come and pick me up in the car |
| 12 | They 'll only phone Mum and Dad and get them to come and take me back . |
| 13 | We ca n't ask them to come and keep us warm from behind , er keep the draught off us from behind and |
| 14 | Because if if we er if we do n't hear a bit in the background and we do n't hear the style in the individual er on the phone then we wo n't invite them to come and have discussions with us . |
| 15 | so it was a bit of er struggle to er , to get them to come and look at it and fix 'em up again , well they did n't fix 'em up they , they , they give 'em a new one , they only got it in the sale |
| 16 | If I were looking for a record deal , I would be pursuing individual A&R people , getting them to come and see my band . |
| 17 | The schoolmistress did not live in the School House , which was occupied by an old grannie , who every day called me to come and talk to her when she was out in her small garden , or in the cottage when the weather was less promising . |
| 18 | I hope they do n't ask me to come and do a benefit concert up there . |
| 19 | ‘ Jeff told me he 'd had a word with you about me and told you I had lots of experience teaching English to foreign students and that you wanted me to come and do the job . ’ |
| 20 | Yes , yeah , cos now , that , see she 's not here really for , for me to come and pay her so I have to take the money down to her house now . |
| 21 | I am gon na wind up I 'm just gon na say if anybody wants some information about our database which is open to anybody in the country , I 've left some leaflets there erm , I 've been asked to plug Trade Union News which has been important to us too so I have erm and I finally I 'd say thank you very much for inviting me to come and speak to you . |
| 22 | Want me to come and fetch you ? |
| 23 | Do you want me to come and hold the stopwatch ? ’ |
| 24 | I just went from person to person and asked if they needed help when a policeman asked me to come and take a look at Johnathan . |
| 25 | She was finding the party more trying than she expected , and told me to come and get her if I needed her for anything … |
| 26 | Balbinder ran outside straight away , gesturing to me to come and look at it . |
| 27 | I heard him working away up here alone , and he kept coming down all eager and excited and asking me to come and look , and I would n't … of all the ridiculous , petty … |
| 28 | He urged me to come and see his new place in Brighton . |
| 29 | Raised his cap with a pretty gesture , blushed to his eyes and asked me to come and see his work . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ Cleg Jones advised me to come and see his brother , Dai is it ? ’ she asked tentatively . |