Example sentences of "they came [coord] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He woke late on the Sunday morning after their first week , sent Ingrid back to her Gasthaus , and wandered down to the coffee shop where several of them came and ate a late breakfast . |
| 2 | Instead of getting someone to calm me down and talk to me , a whole bunch of them came and jumped on me and rushed me down to the block and left me there . |
| 3 | One of them came and sat next to me . |
| 4 | ‘ One or two of them came and spoke to me afterwards . |
| 5 | I 'd been in there four months and they came and told me they 'd gone to America . |
| 6 | They came and saw the state of me — black eyes , my nose bleeding . |
| 7 | Parthia was by now a remote state , though formidable : the Magi had some of the prestige of the mysterious region from which they came and offered spiritual goods of their own . |
| 8 | Then they came and said , ‘ We want to do a second album ’ , and I really did n't want to do it , because I do n't want to be the next , let's say , Joe Satriani or Eric Johnson , even though those guys are really successful in their field . |
| 9 | When they first came , they came and padlocked the building , and some of the news reporters that were there , said ‘ What are you laughing about ? ’ |
| 10 | I just went past these fellows and one of them shouted , ‘ Hey , speccy four-eyes , ’ and I ignored them like you told me and then they came and took them off and stamped on them . ’ |
| 11 | Then they came and took Frank away . |
| 12 | Last week they came and took away my colour TV . |
| 13 | They came and took his father away to help with this horse . |
| 14 | They told me to stay there until they came and got me the following day — which I did n't . |
| 15 | Then — I do n't know how long we were there — they came and got me , dragged me away from the rest . |
| 16 | Well they can physically do it to you with use of fists , use of hands and whatever else they 've got and they can mentally do it to you like put you in jail that or all sorts of things like when I was on sick leave , they came and lifted me . |
| 17 | He also kept a watchful eye on Channel tunnel plans as they came and went . |
| 18 | Said that as Mother Demdike had escaped at the end of They Came And Ate Us , there was a loose end . |
| 19 | For those who missed his performance in They Came And Ate Us it must be said that this was n't a very nice demon at all . |
| 20 | When we stopped , they came and put hoods , woollen knitted ones , over our heads . |
| 21 | Because they came and interviewed me . |
| 22 | Then I sat in the sand and kicked at the r of Oliver until they came and rescued me . |
| 23 | They came and stayed with us when we |
| 24 | before they came and did it again . |
| 25 | What would you do if they came and built a hotel on this stretch of coast ? |
| 26 | Well they came and fetched the curtains on Thursday , they 've got to go back . |
| 27 | ooh they came and fetched the old thing |
| 28 | They came and prodded me and conferred , and then Dr Maxwell said I could go home . |
| 29 | They came and stood in a little group , disciplined and obedient . |
| 30 | So they came and picked me up , and told me off . " |