Example sentences of "[noun] came [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Food lay like clods of clay in his stomach and it rained , but he was supported by a sense of majesty in ideas and even in himself for having them , though this latter maintenance came and went . |
| 2 | A stool was brought out , and as the last echoes of twelve faded in the warm night air a dark-haired young man with flashing black eyes came and stood alone in the dim light . |
| 3 | Fierce Eyes came and pushed her aside . |
| 4 | It is not surprising that a high proportion of A level candidates came and come from such schools . |
| 5 | Furiously she rubbed , unknowing that she passed and repassed over the same bright spot , while the images came and went , flitting through . |
| 6 | Some British armoured cars came and began shooting from a distance , and in the chaos I shouted out to four or five brother officers and we drove off in a truck . |
| 7 | I put my head round the corner : ‘ What if a horse came and broke his leg on the ice ? ’ |
| 8 | David came and stood behind her . |
| 9 | David came and stood at her shoulder , smiling at her attempts to convince Mrs Toye . |
| 10 | Weeks of it because the after the put in all his markings the admiralty came and checked the whole thing then . |
| 11 | Roadworks came and went , unlighted piles of debris looming suddenly . |
| 12 | But he could be ready for anything ; for the churches which had abandoned him ; for the churches like the Philippian one which had continued to care ; for hunger ; for plenty ; for the times when he had no obvious human support , and for the times when his fellow believers came and gave him encouragement . |
| 13 | Whenever the chest was brought in by the Levites to the King 's officials and they saw that there was a large amount of money , the royal secretary and the officer of the chief priest came and emptied the chest and carried it back to its place . |
| 14 | Julia felt too ill to be interested in what he was doing , and in any case her mind came and went as the waves of fever rose and fell , but she heard Comfort say : |
| 15 | Diggs came and told us the day he broke out . ’ |
| 16 | Well it was a large double-fronted house and it was sand-bagged all round and there were tables and to er , administer , you know , wardens in the unevent of air raids which they used to do and they used to patrol the streets looking for lights to see if pe my nan actually got fined once cos she , she event inadvertently went into a room and put the light on and forgot she 'd left the curtains open and an air raid warden happened to be around she , she got hauled into court and fined five pounds for that , er she er I , I once I was just thinking the other day just telling a friend of mine , they had an actual practice air raid once and in some old buildings in the Burchells and we as kids had to go and lie in there and wait till we 'd got a tag on and what would happen to us a label and they took us to the first aid post in , an ambulance came and picked us up on a stretcher and took us to the first aid post in Road . |
| 17 | Wycliffe said that he did , which was something of a record , for Franks 's secretaries came and went with bewildering frequency , though all were to a common stamp . |
| 18 | That flicker of glamour and unscheduled elevation came and went in January . |
| 19 | Police officers of various ranks and specialisms came and went all day , checking for forensic evidence relating to the kidnap , intercepting some telephone calls and listening in to others . |
| 20 | Ellen came and stood beside me . |
| 21 | Alison came and sat down at the table with Franca . |
| 22 | Sharon and others , such as Donal Lunny , put down the basic tracks , and other musicians came and offered their contributions as the occasion demanded . |
| 23 | Lawton came and crouched down in front of it . |
| 24 | Anyway the erm squirrel came and investigated . |
| 25 | Lunch-hour came and went , but with Merrill 's stomach still churning she was in no mood to eat . |
| 26 | The Roman empire declined and fell , the Dark Ages came and went , new peoples settled round Vesuvius , and ultimately new towns began to spring up . |
| 27 | Ice ages came and went . |
| 28 | Lucie came and drew his daughter away into the total darkness of the loft . |
| 29 | She became bored with the paths and sat on a bench with a book , but Magnus came and sat underneath , waiting for her to move on . |
| 30 | Then the water board came and dug the cable up . ’ |