Example sentences of "[noun pl] come and [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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1 | The Safety Management System is a simple to follow 200 page manual , which hopefully will benefit Dounreay for many years to come and contribute to the reduction of accidents on site . ’ |
2 | Boats come and go at the waterfront |
3 | The lorries came and went on a service road near the town ; on some days the bulldozer clanked back and forth , crushing the rubbish into the soft , orange earth . |
4 | Managers came and went at an alarming rate ; there was Board Room take-over ; gates began to dwindle and the Palace were candidates for relegation from well before Christmas . |
5 | Stop the fucking cats coming and shitting in the garden |
6 | Women 's Cooperative Guild members also contrasted them unfavourably with their own more democratic Guild meetings , deploring the way in which ‘ ladies came and lectured on the domestic affairs in the workers ’ homes that it was impossible for them to understand' . |
7 | After Tomkins had served the second glass , Robins looked at me almost quizzically , and said , ‘ I 've seen a few doctors come and go in the islands , but you do n't seem to fit into the usual pattern . ’ |
8 | It was as if his seasons came and went in the phrases he wrote . |
9 | On the open deck in the stern , between life-jackets and coiled mooring ropes , prayer mats were laid out and men came and went throughout the day to pray towards the eastern shore . |
10 | He remembered about twenty-five young children coming and going to the house in Reading . |
11 | And when it came to moving them around , who was going to take any notice of vehicles coming and going from a hospital ? |
12 | The patients who recovered in these boxes and enclosures came and went like the inmates of any other busy casualty ward , but , of course , there were big differences : most importantly , there was no waiting list , and no one had to pay ! |
13 | Oak forests came and went with the hawk 's wing |
14 | You 'll appreciate that it 's years back , that boys come and go for a schoolmaster , they 're a bit phantom . |
15 | And it is by that fire that Kentigern is born — about 518 — and to that fire , just as in the Gospels , that shepherds came and cared for the boy whose mother , her work done , is dead . ’ |