Example sentences of "come [coord] go as [pers pn] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We were even able to come and go as we pleased , taking full advantage of the splendid local restaurants . |
| 2 | She may well have lived in her parents ' house before her enclosure : when she describes the circumstances of her visions in The Revelations of Divine Love , she says that there were a large number of people round her bed and that priests were able to come and go as they pleased , which would not always have been possible in an anchorage . |
| 3 | Their newly acquired rights ( to come and go as they pleased , to own and dispose of property , to buy and sell goods ) contributed to the growth of trade and also strengthened the economic power of the burgesses in relation to that of the nobility . |
| 4 | Yet , in contrast to official policy , Contact staff allowed users to come and go as they pleased in the centres . |
| 5 | She knew her limitations better than she knew her worth , and she taught in a private school because it gave her a little more latitude to come and go as she wished — an important point , since she cared for an old mother whom eighty years had made exacting . |
| 6 | She snapped that she was entitled to come and go as she pleased and said an old friend had offered to buy her supper . |
| 7 | Here , he was able to come and go as he pleased , as long as he was in between 11 p.m. at night and 7 a.m. in the morning . |
| 8 | Hagans was allowed to come and go as he pleased and only days later , he raped and murdered council worker , Anna McGurk , as she walked home from her office . |
| 9 | They each came and went as they pleased . |
| 10 | She no longer needed a constant attendant by then and Annunziata and Comfort came and went as they chose . |
| 11 | He is a volatile character , far more so than me , and he came and went as he pleased . |
| 12 | Rufus would n't have bothered , he came and went as he pleased , and anyway did n't believe parents should be pandered to in this way . |
| 13 | Kitty still came and went as she pleased , borrowing money from both her sisters as well as Charlie , and never paying them back . |
| 14 | People came and went as she sat thinking about this . |
| 15 | She tailed off , colour coming and going as she remembered what had happened both before and after that fateful conversation she 'd overheard , and saw in his eyes an echo of everything that she was feeling . |
| 16 | It still was n't time to let them come and go as they pleased . |
| 17 | She and Bernard could come and go as they pleased , partly thanks to Ruby and Molly , two local women who kept Rhydoldog clean and checked each day for telexes which might announce the Ashley 's return , in which case the beds would be aired and food prepared . |
| 18 | She liked having a place of her own , where she could come and go as she pleased . |
| 19 | As soon as you deigned to tell me that the Svend you were looking for was a student , and that he 'd used my home as a hotel , I recalled that my nephew spent a night here shortly after I moved in so that he could attend a lecture at the city university , and that I 'd entrusted him with a spare key so he could come and go as he pleased . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ Well , we always kept his room for him and he could come and go as he pleased . |
| 21 | He assumed that he could come and go as he wanted , without worrying over-much about their opinions or needs . |