Example sentences of "come and [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What a ruddy way to come and avoid that bloody street , is n't it ? |
| 2 | Some of them used to come to the Accademia and to me they 're still welcome if they want to come and speak . |
| 3 | It was unlooked-for grace that after supper he should send his page to ask Mistress Hussey to be kind enough to come and speak with him in the small chamber the prince was using as a study . |
| 4 | We 're leaving in a week and I might not get another chance to come and speak to you . |
| 5 | I wish they had have attended , the Tories , because there were very very few people prepared to come and speak in favour of Trusts . |
| 6 | I 'm sure we can get an accountant to come and speak to us , but we might have to pay him for two hours work , you see . |
| 7 | And to her horror she could see that in her haste to come and speak to him she had only buttoned the bottom two buttons , and the way she was sitting , crouching forward slightly , one smooth , firm breast was entirely exposed . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | If they do , it is thought unwise to allow them to come and settle in this country by and large . |
| 10 | Henrique Alemão encouraged many people to come and settle to cultivate his extensive land . |
| 11 | But they used to get the , the , the odd ones that used to come and gather s what we call hiplocks again that was the dirty wool off the sheath pin , sounds like that . |
| 12 | Any Member who visits Bishop 's Castle is quite welcome to come and browse through them . |
| 13 | Following a frantic phone call from the Hygiene Manager of a major food producing client near York to come and identify a ‘ slug ’ , surveyor Bob Harris from Hull was presented with a leech which had mysteriously appeared right in the middle of the factory . |
| 14 | Recently we 've had Danny Apsey , the poet , come to talk to a group and next week we 're having Ted Hughes , who 's going to come and read his poems to us . |
| 15 | Their school was nine miles from Mbaga and there was no time after school finished in the evening for the teacher and his wife to come and return home before dark . |
| 16 | Nigel 's going to come and fit it cos he works for a company who makes and he 's doing them in every room . |
| 17 | You do n't know me , my name is Jimmy Cricket , I think I have a story which will , you will find desperately interesting , would you like to come and interview me ? ’ |
| 18 | Mind you , she had the decency to come and confess , and I got it back from the bus company . |
| 19 | Well we 're asking people to enter in teams of four to come and plant as many trees a they can in the space of an hour . |
| 20 | The man who put Niki together again after that little mishap was one Willy Dungl , a masseur-cum-dietician who became Niki 's physical guru for years to come and made Niki into the fitness freak he became . |
| 21 | Further to the first point of order , is it an order for the press to hear about the proposed rise in prescription charges before this house and would n't it have not been better if the Secretary of State to come and made a statement and we could have questioned her about it . |
| 22 | They 'd all come straight to Ingham 's after the Requiem Mass and they were waiting now for John Burns , the undertaker , to come and tell them when the grave was ready at the cemetery and the men would walk the coffin there . |
| 23 | Work was going on in this specific area at Harwell , where it was classified secret , and now a leading Soviet was offering to come and tell all ! |
| 24 | ‘ Well , whoever told you it is n't allowed , tell them to come and tell me , ’ I said , and I took the child outside . |
| 25 | When the men of the World Council of Churches in Geneva heard Arthur was at Caux they phoned him to come and tell them the truth about Rhodesia . |
| 26 | Only later did she learn that what Rosemary had been doing back in Hazelbury that Saturday when Sebastian had met her had been to come and tell her parents personally that Derek had moved out from the flat they shared and was now living with someone else . |
| 27 | Which is why I made up my mind to come and tell you first thing that I could n't think of anyone I 'd rather Naylor married . ’ |
| 28 | The family had you see the family had to come and tell him where the grave was . |
| 29 | He would analyse the paper sample , photograph and enlarge each individual letter and then mount them on a comparison chart , and the jury would pass it solemnly from hand to hand and wonder wily it needed a highly-paid expert to come and explain what anyone could see with his own eyes . |
| 30 | If the second reminder produces no result or the reply to either reminder seems to indicate the need for court intervention the matter will be referred to a master or district judge , who will have the power to issue a summons for the solicitors of one or both sides to come and explain matters . |