Example sentences of "[noun sg] came and [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 | I put my head round the corner : ‘ What if a horse came and broke his leg on the ice ? ’ |
| 3 | Weeks of it because the after the put in all his markings the admiralty came and checked the whole thing then . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 : |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | That flicker of glamour and unscheduled elevation came and went in January . |
| 8 | Anyway the erm squirrel came and investigated . |
| 9 | Lunch-hour came and went , but with Merrill 's stomach still churning she was in no mood to eat . |
| 10 | Then the water board came and dug the cable up . ’ |
| 11 | And that just about sums you up , she thought wryly as the mischievous dimple came and went with his grin , but she wisely said nothing . |
| 12 | The Archdeacon came and sat down beside her and took her hand . |
| 13 | ‘ The warder came and told me to dress and led me to an officer of the court , ’ the small , self-effacing lawyer recalled in an interview on Saturday . |
| 14 | Norfolk police , too , reported that the flood waters were abating and in Kent the high tide came and went with no need for evacuation . |
| 15 | The storm came and drove them into their flimsy shelter . |
| 16 | On another occasion an out-of-work blacksmith came and said that " if the parish would not find him a shop to work in , he would make his complaint to a justice " . |
| 17 | The prefect was more concerned that we and everyone should keep quiet about Daniel having been here ; the last thing he wants is word to get out that a wanted renegade came and went on his demesne without hindrance . |
| 18 | His Mum came and sat down beside him again , smoothing his anorak . |
| 19 | His Mum came and put her arm round him . |
| 20 | The fourth Sunday in Advent came and went . |
| 21 | I covered my face and the girl came and put the wine down on the table . |
| 22 | When the break for lunch was called the press girl came and fetched her , ‘ About ten minutes , okay ? ’ |
| 23 | Later the black girl came and sat beside him on the sofa . |
| 24 | In Luke 's story an angel came and comforted Jesus , as he prayed so earnestly that his sweat fell to the ground like drops of blood ( Luke 22:43–44 ) . |
| 25 | When the moment of the ultimatum came and went , Neville Chamberlain sat before a microphone at 10 Downing Street and read the speech that was to become his monument . |
| 26 | Many announced , leaked , and predicted dates for unveiling the Clinton plan came and went before the maestro of the Reagan image was improbably summoned to manage the case of Bill Clinton . |
| 27 | Lunch came and went . |
| 28 | It looked as if we would have to take him out but an older Asian boy came and took him away , and he went quite confidently . |
| 29 | Christopher ordered Jane , so while he and Francis went to the pottery barn , she stretched out on the grass and the cat came and lay , purring , on top of her . |
| 30 | The footman came and dismantled it for me and I brought a chair to the French windows , quite casually , and there was natural light coming in . |