Example sentences of "come [conj] [verb] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It 's his choice to come or go as he pleases , ’ he said . |
| 2 | She looked little , and soft , and altogether charming , not at all the sort of person you would n't want to come and stay as Feargal had once intimated . |
| 3 | The other big name to come and go after the Cup final was Keith Curle when the price is right . |
| 4 | A quick trip to stock the fridge , the larder and the wine rack and everything is set for a fantastic holiday , with the freedom to come and go when you choose , eat the very best available in the shops , try out the local wines and generally ‘ go native ! ’ |
| 5 | You are free to come and go as you wish . |
| 6 | She may well have lived in her parents ' house before her enclosure : when she describes the circumstances of her visions in The Revelations of Divine Love , she says that there were a large number of people round her bed and that priests were able to come and go as they pleased , which would not always have been possible in an anchorage . |
| 7 | We were even able to come and go as we pleased , taking full advantage of the splendid local restaurants . |
| 8 | Their newly acquired rights ( to come and go as they pleased , to own and dispose of property , to buy and sell goods ) contributed to the growth of trade and also strengthened the economic power of the burgesses in relation to that of the nobility . |
| 9 | Yet , in contrast to official policy , Contact staff allowed users to come and go as they pleased in the centres . |
| 10 | She snapped that she was entitled to come and go as she pleased and said an old friend had offered to buy her supper . |
| 11 | She knew her limitations better than she knew her worth , and she taught in a private school because it gave her a little more latitude to come and go as she wished — an important point , since she cared for an old mother whom eighty years had made exacting . |
| 12 | I hate to burst your royal bubble , Excellency , but I 'm free to come and go as I please . ’ |
| 13 | Here , he was able to come and go as he pleased , as long as he was in between 11 p.m. at night and 7 a.m. in the morning . |
| 14 | Once the badgers have adapted to their new homes the fences will be removed and they 'll be free to come and go as they please . |
| 15 | Hagans was allowed to come and go as he pleased and only days later , he raped and murdered council worker , Anna McGurk , as she walked home from her office . |
| 16 | If it does n't bother you , I 'd like to come and watch when you and Joanna operate together . ’ |
| 17 | Now , I am sadly lacking when it comes to corresponding , but that time I did manage to write and thank her , adding that she would always be welcome to come and call if she ever was in the area . |
| 18 | Two such visitors had come and gone since her arrival at Roscarrock Hall , one an Irish priest on his way out to Galicia and the other an Oxford scholar on his way to train as a Jesuit in France . |
| 19 | A delicious tray of fresh Severn salmon sandwiches had come and gone as had several more rounds of drinks , and Yanto was getting restless . |
| 20 | It would be quite unjust to end the story there , for years later , a very pretty WAAF officer I knew came and asked if my wife and I would come to her wedding reception to be held at Claridges . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | He is a volatile character , far more so than me , and he came and went as he pleased . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | They each came and went as they pleased . |
| 28 | She no longer needed a constant attendant by then and Annunziata and Comfort came and went as they chose . |
| 29 | People came and went as she sat thinking about this . |
| 30 | Kitty still came and went as she pleased , borrowing money from both her sisters as well as Charlie , and never paying them back . |