Example sentences of "come and [verb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The in-service kind of erm activity is of course reflected in our , many of our courses , not merely in short courses , but in the fact that we run erm Masters courses , erm M As in Education of several kinds , and students in those courses are mainly teachers who have been released for a whole year to come and do a full-time course . |
| 2 | Having asked Jane Pargeter to come and give a formal statement at Chester Row , Blanche halted just outside the open door to the flat . |
| 3 | It is time for certain philosophers to come and take a hard look at the data which we have collected before they dismiss our models and our philosophical assumptions so glibly . |
| 4 | WHEN the work is complete , some Regions take the trouble to invite local dignitaries to come and cut the proverbial tape . |
| 5 | The intimations were unmistakable , and I telephoned Jackie to come and administer the last rites ( so to speak ) . |
| 6 | From living near the edge of a hot , steamy jungle in Army married quarters and coming back to England to live in a little house in Catterick Camp with snow everywhere , myself and my son , who was eight years old at the time , were sitting eating porridge feeling miserable and cold waiting for a plumber to come and mend a burst pipe . |
| 7 | Weeks of it because the after the put in all his markings the admiralty came and checked the whole thing then . |
| 8 | I was in agony until a doctor came and passed a catheter to drain the urine away . ’ |
| 9 | A few days later , Grace McNeil , who had just lost a much-loved Rough Collie and had been sent to us by her vet , came and took the young male , Robbie . |
| 10 | He woke late on the Sunday morning after their first week , sent Ingrid back to her Gasthaus , and wandered down to the coffee shop where several of them came and ate a late breakfast . |
| 11 | ooh they came and fetched the old thing |
| 12 | There were also four young ladies who came and gave a brief cabaret of dancing . |
| 13 | But then they got their own van and they did most of them , er but then again they they a called on us and said Can you come and do a little job for us ? |
| 14 | I told him there was some , I said somebody was interested in , well he 's got back in touch and he said can you come and do a twenty minute spot at this hotel in Bedford and he said really , I mean he 's doing it |
| 15 | I wish someone would come and do the same in our house sometime ! |
| 16 | It 's such a lovely idea , think of all those people whose battle for life is so depressing , and then just one moment of beauty may come and illuminate the dark corners of their existence , so that they feel they may have lived just for that one thing . |
| 17 | I mean I 've known wives er having bicycles ready in the , in the corridors of the house , where all the man had to do was to get his trousers on , if he was asleep in bed , she would come and open the front door , put him on his bike and away he went . |
| 18 | We 'll come and have a good look round , I 've never seen it . |
| 19 | ‘ No — it 's just Christmas — a family get-together , you know — it seems to take more out of me than it used to — so I thought I 'd come and have a quiet minute or two with you . |
| 20 | And yet he did encourage those six-monthly sessions at Chequers when the think-tank would come and brief the full Cabinet , and smaller ones in No. 10 for the junior ministers . |
| 21 | That a Messiah will come and establish a New Age is a belief based on a wish too , and it might just happen . |
| 22 | If jazz fusion is more your thing , why not come and enjoy the amazing Frank Gambale and see why he 's rated as one of the world 's top players ? |
| 23 | ‘ Come and get the bloody animal yourself , if you want it , ’ she yelled . |
| 24 | And why had n't the attendant come and told the foreign autocrat off for coming in the wrong way ? |
| 25 | ‘ Come and take a good sniff of this day , ’ he said , pushing open the window . |
| 26 | ‘ Oh , do n't be ridiculous , Giles , calm down , calm down , come and have a nice Perrier water , ’ said Liz , taking his other arm , and , with Kate , attempting to lead him away from the fracas , as one would a child in a playground from its tormentor ( for Giles 's antagonist Paul Hargreaves , pale faced , dark suited , silver-grey tied , was smiling calmly with a horrible amusement at this distressing scene ) : but the desperate Giles was beyond leading , and fell back heavily as he attempted to disengage himself from his two intercessors , crashing into a large fern and some pots of bulbs and sending earth and splashes of champagne over the carpet . |
| 27 | Come and have a Slow Comfortable Screw Against the Wall with an ageing deviant . |
| 28 | ‘ Come and have a quick tour of the house , ’ she says , taking his arm , ‘ before we go in and meet the others . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ Come and meet a few people . |
| 30 | ‘ Now come and meet the chief sponsor . |