Example sentences of "[adj] coming [coord] go " in BNC.
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1 | When she looked up she could see the bees shooting up and away over the wall , and by each hive there was a continual coming and going of bees , some of whose pouches were brilliant with golden pollen . |
2 | Still , there was a good deal of stealthy coming and going within the building — this being ignored apparently by the men on duty in the guardchamber . |
3 | In winter time the stoking of the fires required enormous quantities of wood , so that the Palace was filled with the constant coming and going of footmen , carriers of water or carriers of wood . |
4 | The inevitable domestic dramas ; the illnesses ; the school exams ; the trips to casualty departments of hospitals ; the entertaining of foreign exchange schoolchildren ; the ferrying to and fro to Brownies , school camp , music lessons , the station ; the constant coming and going of teenage friends ; the battle of the telephone : it is all so familiar to every parent , and it is so exhausting ! |
5 | In addition , during the ‘ Hundred Years War ’ which began in 1338 it meant there was a constant coming and going across the county by a not particularly well disciplined soldiery . |
6 | But this was by no means all consumed by the brethren in an orgy of gluttony ; most of the larger monastic records in Sussex would have shown a similar pattern , since there was a constant coming and going of important visitors and benefactors with extensive retinues . |