Example sentences of "came and [vb past] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was when he was testing the third of those with his stethoscope that Carrington beckoned to Talbot , who came and listened in turn . |
| 2 | ‘ When I got home , the doctor came and said of course she could n't cook , so I was doing the cooking . |
| 3 | In 1968 , the diamond Jubilee came and went without celebration for fear of a financial loss ! |
| 4 | Nurses and doctors , oblivious to the scene around them , came and went with pills and potions , drips and plasma . |
| 5 | Hector , who came and went at will through her open chamber door , was in turn barking and yelping , and she could make out Mrs Diggory 's voice . |
| 6 | All evening , great men came and went at Downing Street and at the Palace of Westminster . |
| 7 | That flicker of glamour and unscheduled elevation came and went in January . |
| 8 | It came and went in waves . |
| 9 | And still the faint red light up ahead came and went by fits and starts , leading them on across gale-swept open moorland , through massively still pine forests , up exposed dirt tracks and over passes whose names had vanished with the inhabitants of the farms where until a few decades earlier generation after generation of human beings had eked out lives of almost unimaginable deprivation . |
| 10 | We only used the road to the back of the house once , on arrival , otherwise we came and went by boat from the dock . |
| 11 | Scott-Scobie 's strength was that of the Foreign Office , faceless but continuous while PM 's came and went like lantern slides . |
| 12 | The swallows came and went like carpenters , |
| 13 | parked behind , but then somebody else came and parked in front of him , and he was there and sort , you could see him looking you know , he looked at the driveway and he looked , he was looking in his rear view mirror and then he turned round and looked like this , then he looked at the front , and he was thinking my god I ca n't get out of here , and all of a sudden a little car comes up the road stops , goes beep , beep on the horn , wan na get in the drive , this bloke went ha , ha , ha , ha and he could n't do anything |
| 14 | As she turned away , Rona , who had just finished serving , came and stood in front of him . |
| 15 | He came and stood in front of her and looked down . |
| 16 | He came and stood in front of her . |
| 17 | One afternoon I was going back into my hotel when a fat man came and stood in front of me . |
| 18 | Pion nodded to his mother and came and stood by Masklin , who could n't think of anything to say . |
| 19 | We sent for Dr Mortimer , who came and sat with Sir Henry throughout the night . |