Example sentences of "come [conj] [verb] as " 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 You are free to come and go as you wish .
4 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 .
5 We were even able to come and go as we pleased , taking full advantage of the splendid local restaurants .
6 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 .
7 Yet , in contrast to official policy , Contact staff allowed users to come and go as they pleased in the centres .
8 She snapped that she was entitled to come and go as she pleased and said an old friend had offered to buy her supper .
9 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 .
10 I hate to burst your royal bubble , Excellency , but I 'm free to come and go as I please . ’
11 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 .
12 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 .
13 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 .
14 A delicious tray of fresh Severn salmon sandwiches had come and gone as had several more rounds of drinks , and Yanto was getting restless .
15 He is a volatile character , far more so than me , and he came and went as he pleased .
16 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 .
17 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 .
18 They each came and went as they pleased .
19 She no longer needed a constant attendant by then and Annunziata and Comfort came and went as they chose .
20 People came and went as she sat thinking about this .
21 Kitty still came and went as she pleased , borrowing money from both her sisters as well as Charlie , and never paying them back .
22 She tailed off , colour coming and going as she remembered what had happened both before and after that fateful conversation she 'd overheard , and saw in his eyes an echo of everything that she was feeling .
23 Again , it avoided the words black and white but it classified people as patrials and non-patrials ; in general terms , patrials , who can come and go as they wish , are almost always white ; non-patrials are almost never white .
24 We keep open house here and they can come and go as they please before settling down , as many do , after a few attempts .
25 Geoff Allen , who has served Northampton as player and official for 30 years , said : ‘ What does stick in the throat is that Shelford , who has made our leading players better players , will probably have to sit on his backside while apparently some other overseas players can come and go as they please . ’
26 He assumed that he could come and go as he wanted , without worrying over-much about their opinions or needs .
27 She liked having a place of her own , where she could come and go as she pleased .
28 It still was n't time to let them come and go as they pleased .
29 ‘ It is no use ’ , she stated ‘ letting the poor come and go as they think , to be helped or not as the charitable choose . ’
30 PLAYER : I can come and go as I please .
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