Example sentences of "i come and [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | I hope they do n't ask me to come and do a benefit concert up there . |
| 3 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Want me to come and fetch you ? |
| 7 | Do you want me to come and hold the stopwatch ? ’ |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | She was finding the party more trying than she expected , and told me to come and get her if I needed her for anything … |
| 10 | Balbinder ran outside straight away , gesturing to me to come and look at it . |
| 11 | 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 … |
| 12 | He urged me to come and see his new place in Brighton . |
| 13 | Raised his cap with a pretty gesture , blushed to his eyes and asked me to come and see his work . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ Cleg Jones advised me to come and see his brother , Dai is it ? ’ she asked tentatively . |
| 15 | He told me to come and see him again when I was pregnant . |
| 16 | Buchan was living at Elsfield Manor near Oxford and invited me to come and see him : no one could have been more helpful and encouraging . |
| 17 | Because , and they told m he t he told me to come and see |
| 18 | You do n't want me to come and see how you 're getting on |
| 19 | ‘ Why on earth would you want me to come and work for you ? ’ |
| 20 | If you would like me to come and discuss this further , please telephone me during office hours at this number ( ) or at home on . |
| 21 | And there 's these hills where it 's hot and rains all the time , and in the rain forests there are these very tall trees and right in the top branches of the trees there are these like great big flowers called bromeliads and water gets into the flowers and makes little pools and there 's a type of frog that lays eggs in the pools and tadpoles hatch and grow into new frogs and these little frogs live their whole lives in the flowers right at the top of the trees and do n't even know about the ground and the world is full of things like that and now I know about them and I 'm never ever going to be able to see them and then you , ’ she gulped for breath , ‘ want me to come and live with you in a hole and wash your socks ! ’ |
| 22 | I 've got a job that I love doing , and er , I also take the view that if I came and did this programme and moaned away at everybody , and er , moaned away about everything , nobody would ring me up , and nobody would listen . |
| 23 | I came and started tidying up bits and pieces of cut-off material around my mum on the floor . |
| 24 | as I was speaking at erm a neighbours and friends group at my parents church and Rosie heard about it and she said will I come and speak to you . |
| 25 | I , I , shall I come and polish your |
| 26 | ‘ If I go back … can I come and visit you ? ’ |
| 27 | Can I come and do some of the work there . |
| 28 | However , if I actually wanted to come along and learn some English — I did ‘ O ’ level English , I enjoyed it immensely , but then I did science in the sixth for and went on to a science career — can I come and study English at your school ? |
| 29 | And could I come and 'ave it with you at the table ? ’ |
| 30 | Can I come and complain to you about please ? |