Example sentences of "come [conj] went [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She came and went while he was out , tidying up , laying the table for his evening meal , and no doubt reading his letters and looking in his drawers to see if he had a rupture belt or kept a stock of contraceptives . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | So anyway I er the War came and went but before it went I was in , went int eh Army of course . |
| 4 | Christmas came and went and Ruth was glad to see the back of it . |
| 5 | Nine o'clock came and went and there was no sign of him . |
| 6 | However , Christmas 1992 came and went and still had n't claimed his proxy visit — so we decided to act on 's behalf . |
| 7 | Shimon Peres ' best chance of forming a government probably came and went when two members of an orthodox religious party caused an uproar in parliament while renegeing on a promise to join the Labour Party coalition . |
| 8 | He is a volatile character , far more so than me , and he came and went as he pleased . |
| 9 | Robert seems to have had a special affection for the Orynthia ; whereas many mariners came and went as the whim took them , he stuck to his old ship . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | They each came and went as they pleased . |
| 12 | She no longer needed a constant attendant by then and Annunziata and Comfort came and went as they chose . |
| 13 | People came and went as she sat thinking about this . |
| 14 | Kitty still came and went as she pleased , borrowing money from both her sisters as well as Charlie , and never paying them back . |
| 15 | At the end of forty days Noah opened the window of the Ark , that he had made and sent out a raven which came and went until the waters upon the earth had dried up . |
| 16 | He had made and sent out a raven which came and went until the waters upon the earth had dried up . |
| 17 | Which came and went until the waters upon the earth had dried up . |
| 18 | Oh well he , he no he did n't they just come and went and |