Example sentences of "people come and [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | People come and visit it and |
| 2 | And you do n't , for instance , produce a piece of work with a group of students , say … to be performed in front of other people , thinking it 's lousy , and then have people come and tell you that it 's wonderful . |
| 3 | People come and clean the rooms and bring him food . |
| 4 | Very busy though , you 've always got people come and walk backwards and forwards . |
| 5 | There 'd be other people come and had we 'd show them round the darkroom and teach them how to print , how to take pictures , and as soon as they knew how to do that , they 'd fall off and go away . |
| 6 | That was quite funny because it was our first Christmas down there and I was saying to the housekeeper that I I would n't mind having people come and stay and not a problem because we 've got a lovely cooker and we 're going to bring our microwave down from . |
| 7 | When he , but then he said , like he said is there anywhere else where he could get a stage from and I explained to him that people come and hire the stage off us like Saint Michael-le-Belfry church , who are paying in cash . |
| 8 | All through the service , and all day and night , people come and go , moving intently along the walls , listening and reading everything . |
| 9 | On sunny days , when she had washed and dressed him , his chair would be taken out and placed under the Stocks Tree where he could watch the people come and go . |
| 10 | People come and go as they wish and people call there . |
| 11 | At night we sit in the cafés on the front , people come and go , there is an excited bustle … |
| 12 | I 've seen so many people come and go who 've put on this act of caring and it does n't last a week . |
| 13 | A pub is a perfectly obvious building to detect on viewing the house and even the most refined drinking place or restaurant is going to subject the surrounding properties to a certain amount of noise as people come and go , as is a large supermarket or a village hall . |
| 14 | PEOPLE COME AND GO . |
| 15 | ‘ For more than four hours Tally and I lounged around in the carry-out , talking , drinking coffee , watching people come and go , watching other hangers-on as they bantered with the waitresses , horsed around among themselves , or danced to the juke-box . |
| 16 | This is not the case at a rehearsal where the players are dressed casually , people come and go , some members of the orchestra are talking to one another , while others are sitting drinking coffee , tea ( or perhaps even soup ) . |
| 17 | People come and go . ’ |
| 18 | You know all these people come and install bathrooms and all that . |
| 19 | The people at the table looked like beleaguered tourists in the kind of restaurants where people come and play violins in your ear , that is to say , horribly embarrassed and as if they were wondering how much it would take to make them go away . |
| 20 | We find winter is the time when most people come and have a chat to us ; we 've got a regular following of visitors and you get to know them quite well . |
| 21 | And yet some people come and say — ‘ Oh you have a hard time , with no washing machine and no hoover ’ , but they 're the ones who moan ! |
| 22 | Erm up then you can turn round when the smaller people come and say are carving up the price , you can turn round and say , Oh no they 're not that 's the price and that 's the price . |
| 23 | Because the one thing I do establish I tell people come and talk to me when you 've got a car . |