Example sentences of "come [conj] [vb base] [conj] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ I think that if you first come and show that you 're the boss , then you 're O.K. , and the children will turn round and like you for it .
2 We are all too aware that fashions come and go before we have had time to get a grip on the underlying theology which informs them .
3 Mr Keen saw John Neal , Willie Maddren , Bobbie Murdoch and Malcolm Allison come and go before work pressures forced him to leave his scouting post in the early days of Bruce Rioch .
4 He has seen music legends come and go but , until the end of this month , Fluff has fought and won his battle with time .
5 World trends come and go but the army of unemployed grows forever ; now economists are predicting that there will be no foreseeable end to the trend of the last few years .
6 The other co , other things come and go but
7 Parents ' groups come and go whether or not there are CMHTs and it is difficult to be precise about the CMHT contribution in this field .
8 All waterways shall be nationalised , the Landowner only owns the riverbed , and not the water and fish which come and go unless said fish are tagged with the owner 's name , address and muzzled , fish and owner .
9 Overall , though , most individuals survive with a good enough attachment pattern established in early life , and from then on attachments and separations come and go as the span of life develops .
10 People come and go as they wish and people call there .
11 ‘ So we do have a few residents that still come and go as they please .
12 He may let you do everything you ask : use a gun , use dogs , use nets , come and go as you please — and retain all the rabbits you kill totally without cost .
13 In Blind Corner Dornford Yates condemned his characters to days of digging for the Wagenburg treasure in a well so deep and cold that Richard Chandos comments on the absurd situation in which he and his comrades , who have bought the castle under the noses of their villainous rivals , live in constant dread of discovery , while their enemies , in possession above , come and go as they please .
14 Screen-writer , you see , demands of studio , absolute solitude essential , come and go as I please , often not there , vagaries of genius and its errant locomotion , several forged references available from heads of Oxbridge colleges , principals of Shakespeare Schools , even one on House of Commons paper .
15 Come and go as it suits you .
16 ‘ They just come and go as they please .
17 Films like dreams come and go and are soon forgotten , yet King Kong , which I must have seen in 1933 , or early 1934 , with its scenes of adventure in a fabled land , was the one to overwhelm my mind and stay with me to the present day .
18 Detective Constable Loring drove along the promenades of the south coast towns , calling at police stations and paying particular attention to those clubs and cafes and amusement halls where girls come and go and pass each other .
19 If the contractions can not make up their mind about starting or not , that is they come and go and labour is not properly established , take one dose of Pulsatilla 200 every 2 hours until the contractions do make up their mind .
20 UniSoft expects to be able to carry on making money out of contracts to port the various flavours of Unix — and their associated testing mechanisms — to and from different architectures as companies come and go and change development strategies .
21 Why is it that presidents come and go and yet accomplish so relatively little ?
22 Yes I think er people should hear that er er er the royal family 's had a lot of correction in the past with the outside world and er come and go and you know , people know the royal family very well and they attract a lot of business , a lot of things go on behind the scenes whether it 's from glamour point of view .
23 They come and go and there will be times of definite improvement ( see P in fig ii ) .
24 Storms come and go and people get flooded .
25 One by one speakers come and go until , at last , it is my turn .
26 Fashions in teaching come and go because none have solved the problem of English spelling .
27 Come and get and get your skates in the car !
28 They come and act like they still at home .
29 teachers that that come and help and erm
30 So , when you actually come and try and do it , what happens ?
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