Example sentences of "comes [conj] [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Truth is covered up , buried , and he comes and unburies the truth or rather shows us how we can unbury that truth within ourselves , shows us the tools we must use . |
| 2 | We leave unhappy teenagers who ‘ do n't want to talk about it ’ alone ; the tearful 5-year-old comes and dumps the problem in your lap . |
| 3 | It was/is quite refreshing to have crosses/corners snuffedout by someone who comes and catches the bloody ball . |
| 4 | There is the occasional policeman on his regular beat who comes and eats a paan or smokes a cigarette . |
| 5 | Who comes and does the fitting ? |
| 6 | ‘ Everything flat and grey , no real joy over anything , nothing to look forward to , just somehow getting through each day as it comes and giving a sigh of relief when it 's finally over . |
| 7 | ‘ If a cop comes and finds the car , with me in it , I would n't know what to do . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ Even if I am sleeping , ’ she told me ‘ at 12 o'clock at night he comes and pulls the quilt off and starts beating me ’ . |
| 9 | It 's nice that he does that — you know , comes and feeds the birds like that . |
| 10 | All I know is that every Friday at a set hour he comes and puts the money into my hands . |
| 11 | It shares many features with other stories found among many peoples : a spirit or evil demon makes a sudden attack on a traveller at night ; the traveller is quite unprepared , and the demon means to kill him ; nevertheless , in the life and death struggle that ensues the traveller manages to get the upper hand , and before the dawn comes and robs the demon of its power , he extorts from it something of its supernatural strength . |
| 12 | Man comes and tills the fields and lies beneath , And after many a summer dies the swan . |