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  • A lot of the wrinklies, in fact, come along with holes in their shirts and jerseys.
  • You come along with me and I'll introduce you (he's not what you call a refined sort of feller, yer know, 'he explained forbearingly,' but still we've always been friends in a way); you can't stop? The Giant's Robe
  • So we wanted to give the fans a chance to come along and support the team. The Sun
  • The meetings are anonymous, non-denominational and open to all, men and women and anyone who feels the need is welcome along.
  • I'm afraid to say whilst there are some good landlords and landladies in town, there are also some who need to stop looking so miserable, put a smile on their face and start offering a genuine welcome along with some value for money
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  • Wark's job as a plater is to cut and shape the steel, while McArdle's is to put the structure in place on the berth before the welders come along and join the steel blocks together.
  • Dede, if I tell you, flat and straight, that I'm going up to live on that ranch at Glen Ellen, that I ain't taking a cent with me, that I'm going to scratch for every bite I eat, and that I ain't going to play ary a card at the business game again, will you come along with me? Chapter XXII
  • It's even more difficult to admit we're human and all our frailties that come along with it.
  • _ That's what I do want to know, zoa come along -- Woo ye though -- Missus, let's behave pratty -- Zur if you pleaze, Dame and I will let you walk along wi 'us. Speed the Plough A Comedy, In Five Acts; As Performed At The Theatre Royal, Covent Garden
  • It all proves the old adage that you wait an hour for a bus and then three come along at the same time. The Sun
  • And stuff ( "neuk") me up as much as you can, because you'll still have to come along and pay for what you did. ANC Daily News Briefing
  • Now light your torches, and come along. The Princess and the Goblin
  • The bars and food hall will stay open well after racing too so come along and join in the party atmosphere. The Sun
  • Then the police come along and tell him he could be cautioned. The Sun
  • Sometimes these horses come along and they just keep finding. The Sun
  • A rescue boat managed to come alongside the crippled vessel.
  • In an open voice the narrator implores the reader to ‘Come along,’ to enter the ‘wind’ that sweeps over the cane, to become part of this vision based on an almost physical palpability.
  • So why not come along and support, have a flutter and enjoy the action of a night out at the dogs.
  • I counted Bill and Megan Romersma, whose place backed up to ours and whose son, Jared, Puddles and I had ditched earlier, because there was no way we were going to get away with this if that little tattletale had come along. Chicken
  • These gold nuggets don't come along very often. The Sun
  • There's a big press launch today and you're most welcome to come along.
  • Then we come along, power hungry wizards looking for the secret to immortality, and we bag you.
  • ‘Yeah, but, there's not much work out there for people in your field at the moment, something might come along next week that would be great for you and you'd miss out,’ he blusters.
  • Another thing that will come along - probably after more than a decade or two - is quantum cryptanalysis, where you would use a quantum computer to decrypt existing codes.
  • All are encouraged to come along and view the sights of a fascinating continent.
  • Come along and see all the local boxers in action in a venue that is ideally suited for a boxing tournament.
  • All are welcome to come along and browse among the many goods on sale.
  • Come along, my handsome girl, you must move briskish this day! Little Novels of Italy Madonna Of The Peach-Tree, Ippolita In The Hills, The Duchess Of Nona, Messer Cino And The Live Coal, The Judgment Of Borso
  • This garment was, -- not entirely to Patty's surprise, -- a horror of gaily flowered silkoline, but as they would see no one but the nurse, she said, "Yes; come along. Patty and Azalea
  • You wait for one tower folly to open in the English countryside... and then two come along. Times, Sunday Times
  • An 'I watched' im come along making for that outside cart-shed -- that 'un that's back to back wi' the shippen, where they foun 'Watson lyin'. Harvest
  • Thirdly, there is a chronic shortage of comic tension, so that when the jokes do come along, they are neither surprising, nor amusing, because they have been so clearly telegraphed.
  • Margarito is one of the fiercest welterweights to come along in years.
  • There are the budgetary and competence benefits that come along with homing in on some basic repeatable mechanics that are well-understood. Great Big Bites
  • Clearly, hospitals have come along way in many instances of making patients more comfortable.
  • I guess we'd better hev a liquor-up to seal the barg'in; an 'when thet's done, if you've got nuthin' better to du, I reckon you'd better come along o 'me to my little shanty at the head of the bay -- your brother's ben made welcome thaar already. Fritz and Eric The Brother Crusoes
  • There's a big press launch today and you're most welcome to come along.
  • In like manner, when the occasion for their use has passed, the raising of the boom will cause the nets to come alongside, when they can either be brailed up through the grummets or disconnected for future use. Scientific American Supplement, No. 601, July 9, 1887
  • There's a big press launch today and you're most welcome to come along.
  • So while you wait for another oldie to come along, you have to get your nostalgia fix from iconic gear and moments from the film. Times, Sunday Times
  • All former boarders are welcome to come along to visit the College, perhaps meet some old friends, revisit former days and mark the closure of boarding at St Kierans.
  • The club invites the public to come along and see the refurbished main hall and the racquetball, handball and squash courts.
  • When surf-casting into Lake Michigan in November, the possibilities are endless: steelhead, coho, menominee, chinook, lake trout, almost anything can come along.
  • To know and to be aware of many things is like a man too fat for his house and this obese pig of a man is forced onto the streets where he can't tolerate the heat and cold because of his flab; and then I come along and suck through his baboonish skin before he knocks off. Corpus of a Siam Mosquito
  • I was told afterwards he'd been trying to sell the place for months, but all the locals found out they would be buying trouble and left it alone for some muggins like me straight out of the army and still wet behind the ears to come along and jump in with my big feet. Dead Cert
  • Some would chop down the trees; some would measure and cut off the logs; some would "scutch" the logs; and others would come along with a broadaxe, and hew two sides of the logs flat. Last of the Pioneers, Or Old Times in East Tenn.; Being the Life and Reminiscences of Pharaoh Jackson Chesney (Aged 120 Years).
  • There's a big press launch today and you're most welcome to come along.
  • A fellow from our outfit happened to come along, bearing the state's lichen expert (a true lichenologist, and godfather to the children of this continent's number one lichenologist) in tow. Grouse Diary Entry
  • A bus should come along any minute now.
  • The entry fee is 20 for a table of four and there will be raffles galore on the night so why not come along and support a good cause?
  • And if any more pesky journalists should come along looking for quality time, well, they better have some decent snacks in their pockets. Times, Sunday Times
  • Patrons can place their bets in the bar and in the lounge on the night, so come along and enjoy a fun night out.
  • The group welcomes new members and invite people to come along at 8.15 pm.
  • When I did my parody, Red Sophia, I extrapolated that this poor, magnificent warrior woman was probably getting unbelievably horny waiting for someone to come along who could beat her.
  • Would you like to come along to the movies?
  • I stood at my local bus stop for over an hour waiting for a number 8 to come along.
  • Another thing that will come along - probably after more than a decade or two - is quantum cryptanalysis, where you would use a quantum computer to decrypt existing codes.
  • Nicholls, a self-confessed opportunist, says it is all about exploiting the right opportunities when they come along.
  • Team members yell out to the crew in Arabic as they come alongside and the dhow's crew responds by hanging a rope ladder over the side.
  • A bus should come along any minute now.
  • Some very valuable items at low prices will be on offer so please come along and give generously.
  • And we LOVE new people in Se1, we reject being called "cliquey", so please do come along. London SE1 community website
  • Most students find that the first job does eventually come along, and even that elusive Equity card is attainable.
  • The public are welcome to come along and show their appreciation.
  • You wait ages for a royal wedding and then two come along at once. Times, Sunday Times
  • Vergil or anyone else was free to come along and have a shot at the Troy stories, if they could stand the comparison to the big guy. Does it make a difference when authors step into another’s shoes?
  • You wait years for a great art exhibition and then five come along at once. Times, Sunday Times
  • 'Well, why won't yer come along of me altogether, an' you'll be arright then? 'he answered. Liza of Lambeth
  • As with No 11 buses, so with this early 1939 play by Terence Rattigan: you wait ages for a revival and then two come along at once.
  • It's just too hard to try and enthuse people to come along if they don't really know what you're on about.
  • If there is anyone out there who is interested in helping with the preparation of the day, which includes bedecking the town in festive bunting, etc., to come along to their weekly meetings on Thursdays.
  • An appeal is being made to all volunteers from previous years to come along and new hare catchers will also be very welcome.
  • To come along this side of the river, they'd have to cross the Grange fields first---a lot of fields, most bordered with briar ditches. ALL ABOUT LOVE
  • Snake come along he bite you.
  • To make a really great photo, they need lots of people to come along, wearing as much red as possible.
  • Come along now Mrs. Mason,’ the deputy said with a sigh. ‘You can't go around slandering an innocent man.’
  • They had almost come alongside for tea when Captain Fang had unholstered the dorsal cannon and fired a burst of caseless thirty millimeter high-explosive rounds into the Rover. 365 tomorrows » 2007 » July : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day
  • There are a group of community gardeners who come along once a month to help out and volunteer their time.
  • It is entirely possible that a company with a bigger wallet will come along. Times, Sunday Times
  • If you are someone who experiences depression or anxiety attacks you are welcome to come along.
  • Interested parents are invited to come along to the meeting this evening to ask questions and gather information.
  • Rogue artists who confabulate our notions of what art is and isn't are always going to come along, and we should be grateful for them, even encourage them. The State of Criticism
  • Come along, slowcoach, spit spot, on the double now!
  • If you are going to be a serious Opposition you need to come along and say what are your proposals, how would you pay for them. Times, Sunday Times
  • You wait years for a big privatisation to come along, then there are two at once. Times, Sunday Times
  • I have come along in the middle of the backward and forward discussion on waitressing and the hospitality industry in St Lucia.
  • Sometime between 1 and 2pm on April 24, we would come along and one of the criers would do a cry about that person's business in rhyme.
  • She wants to come along with us to the movie.
  • Few games come along that fill a person with such a desire, 24/7, to play it.
  • Anyone with an interest in the world of drama, whether on stage or backstage, is encouraged to come along to the meeting and get involved in the activities of the group.
  • The excursion fantasy has a certain colonialist/orientalist subtext to it; the strange is the exotic, the frontier, the wilderness waiting for the indomitable hero to come along and tame (bringing order to its natives in the process.) Notes on Strange Fiction: Seams
  • Lay my head on the railroad line, Train come along, pacify my mind.
  • I was curious about the huge chunks of snow on the sides of the road, but then realised that it was because snow graders had come along earlier and cleared the road of snow.
  • The committee invites all club members as well as non-members to come along and enjoy the fun.
  • All artworks are on sale at very keen, competitive prices, so come along and enjoy the wonderful display.
  • He also had a deadly eyebeam power that could only be stopped by the goggles he wore like a certain X-Man to come along a few decades later, and much better PR than either the later Comet or Cyclops. A few words about every single story in Supermen!
  • We are trying to reach as many of our former students and graduates as possible to tell them to come along and meet old friends and renew links with their former college.
  • Then he saw the maiden come along the forest glade by the margent of the stream, her basket filled and over-flowing with flowers. The Coming of Cuculain
  • All artworks are on sale at very keen, competitive prices, so come along and enjoy the wonderful display.
  • Maybe that big lug might have been a good choice to come along.
  • But all that the widow of the high Anglo-Indian official said to me was: "Come along, Ruby, have a cup of tea.
  • We're going for a swim. Why don't you come along?
  • Now light your torches, and come along. The Princess and the Goblin
  • I began to come along well in English after I improved my study methods.
  • The train is leaving the station and you're still waiting for a blacksmith to come along and reshoe your horse. SeeLight:
  • If you would like to reassess your life and learn how to use stress to your advantage, come along.
  • You are invited to come along to The Convent Flower Shop to see all the mossed swags, door and cemetery wreaths, logs and Christmas decorations.
  • We then merged with a team who had come along to help and they asked me to continue as leader.
  • Snake come along he bite you.
  • When you consider how beautiful the car park is now, and the wonderful beach that nature has endowed us with, how can these people come along and spoil the area with their rubbish?
  • Would she like to come along with him to a special screening of a film loosely based on one of Calvino's stories?
  • If you are someone who is anxious, depressed or having a problem do come along to this clinic where you can discuss in confidence any matters you need to.
  • He added: ‘Once you get into the realms of private property we are waiting for people to come along and put their two pennyworth in.’
  • An Arsenal defeat could lead to a desperate tailspin damaging the two crucial cup ties that come along in February.
  • You wait half an hour for a bus, then three come along at once!
  • I didn't recognise him, a young kid in an old t-shirt who seemed really overwhelmed, not talking to anyone, and in my mind, I'd like to think that Bill bought a smokie from him at a street stand on his way over and invited him to come along for the ride and jam at the late night. The Velvet Hot Tub | Freshest Stories
  • We do see, for example, in the materially less well-off a rampant hopelessness and the social effects that come along with it.
  • He also says that, while in the 1990s the Chinese found the material discovered in the Tarim Basin, especially that which testified to a far greater presence in the region, "a little difficult to take," he believes they will come along. Following controversy, mummies at Penn Museum remain objects of mystery
  • Employees can hardly sit, idly waiting for new work to come along.
  • It should be good fun. Why don't you come along?
  • Come along, as soon as you wish -- but don't come _too soon_. In Her Own Right
  • 'Well, you' ave 'ad a day of it,' said Mrs Whittle, when they had told about finding the Teasel gone from the staithe, and how Jim Wooddall had given them a lift down to Yarmouth, and how Old Bob had taken them up Breydon in the Come Along. Coot Club
  • They'd come along on overnighters, or for a couple of days only.
  • Now light your torches, and come along. The Princess and the Goblin
  • You get these crackpot ideas about helping people who come along to you with a mournful tale.
  • If you get the chance to come along I reckon you will see a cracker of a match so don't forget the date.
  • Just when we're sure that they can't get any sillier or more juvenile, they come along with a stunning new innovation that shows us what we're paying them to do.
  • She launched the festival, and in the first year had 800 visitors, in the second year, 12,000, yes, that nought is 12,000, and now has so many people who want to come along, that they have big-screen monitors and overflow tents. In Case of Litfest Break Glass
  • The Lead sled is the greatest thing to come along since sliced bread. The Lead Sled--America's Shame?
  • If interested why not come along on Tuesday evening at 6.15 pm to The Women's Centre Main Street and enrol.
  • But the tinner happened to come along, and he made me a new head out of tin. WICKED: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF THE WICKED WITCH OF THE WEST
  • It is slightly less diplomatic for them to come along and say that yours is rubbish. Times, Sunday Times
  • Come along," said Archie; "if they were duppies they will be afraid of interfering with white people, and if black fellows, they are still less likely to trouble us. The Missing Ship The Log of the "Ouzel" Galley
  • I liked to birdwatch before I got married and I persuaded Diane to come along with me. SACRAMENT
  • She always thinks some guy is going to come along and fix her life.
  • Hopefully it will take in a lot of money and someone else will come along and do the next one tons better.
  • Anyone that remembers the eighties is encouraged to come along and relive the good old times.
  • This is a always a fun night out so come along and enjoy the quiz and support the school fund.
  • When the chances come along he keeps his cool and tucks them away really nicely. The Sun
  • New Flavor of Beams T-rays It didn't take long for a potential prizewinner to come along as researchers described a new method of creating Terahertz, or T-rays, which are currently used by full-body security scanners. Week in Words
  • Mr. Isherwood however, in preferring to use his coveted editorial pulpit for snarky, unfunny asides -- "I invited a Beatles devotee to join me, but she reacted as if I'd asked her to come along to two weeks of jury duty" -- casually damns Rain with faint, and mostly fudged, praise. James Rotondi: "Rain" On Their Parade: Why the NY Times review of "Rain: A Tribute to the Beatles On Broadway" is All Wet
  • The respondent must have been alive to the possibility that a cyclist could come along.
  • Barefoot, barelegged, and with her dress sleeves rolled up to the elbows, Josie had come along way from her strict and proper ways at Hatfield.
  • Her grandma had come along about an hour later with sushi and a can of lemon-lime pop.
  • The station and its shop will be offering visitors a cup of tea and a mince pie when they come along, in a fund-raising effort for this very worthy charity.
  • Injuries and different selectors did come along and all players went through bad patches but he had been fit for the last five years and felt there was more left to chase other milestones along the way.
  • The fifth to come along is my interviewee, a college classmate.
  • You go now and I'll come along later.
  • Traditionally Samichlaus would come along with his (politically incorrect) friend Schmutzli ( 'schmutz' meaning dirt - usually this was a person covered in soot). December 2008
  • And then you have to come along with your great galumphing ideas and ruin everything. ARE YOU TALKING TO ME?: A Life Through the Movies
  • He's welcome to come along, provided that he behaves himself.
  • So, yes, I tend to sit on the sideway-facing seats and take my chances that someone will come along who needs it, in which case I offer up the seat. Where riders stand on Metro seating
  • All are welcome to come along and enjoy a walk with good company.
  • We would like to see as many members as possible in attendance and any intending members are also welcome to come along on the night.
  • Eventually, if the population of one species rises too much a new epidemic will come along to redress the balance.
  • My husband, who would have been a professional mountain climber had I not come along and spoiled his plans, decided to take a day hike up the famous "fourteener" while we lounged near the campfire. Home Sanctuary
  • I very much hope that you might feel able to come along whenever convenient to you, have a cup of
  • Of the other contenders, we must watch out for the replacements for the Volvo S40 and the Peugeot 406, both of which will come along during 2004.
  • There will also be a raffle for fabulous prizes including a fantastic hamper, so come along and try your luck.
  • They offer the prospect of a steady stream of rental income along with some capital growth. Times, Sunday Times
  • Aye, truly, Martin, some young springald that hath risen among 'em since my time, a bloody rogue by account and one I would fain come alongside of -- Martin Conisby's Vengeance
  • In the old days, you could come along in the morning and still get a Centre Court ticket," said Mark Martin, a veteran queuer. Wimbledon's Other Spectator Sport: The Queue
  • I wisht to God a nor'wester'd come along an 'blow the Solomons clean to hell. Chapter 3
  • I'd like to add a few words here -- for any of you who are dreaming of one day going on an African safari and need some ammunition to persuade a nonhunting spouse to come along. F&S Adventure: City Girl On African Safari
  • More people are invited to come along and take part in the adoration.
  • Sailors swarmed up from a flyboat which had just come alongside on the top of the tide. HIDING FROM THE LIGHT
  • More interesting is the fact you wait ages for a new racecourse to come along then two turn up at once. The Sun
  • Most of the people who passed her during the daytime would either spit at her or come along and pelt the door with rotten vegetable and eggs for their own amusement.
  • Cyril Connolly and Jerome Zerbe include the Desert de Retz in their book "Les Pavillons" (1962) with Zerbe remembering "goats glattering up the beautifully modulated spiral staircase" and noting that the structure was then in a "terrible state" and hoping someone would come along "with the means and taste to restore it. The Broken Column House
  • All sorts of once-dominant communication media have fallen by the wayside, just as soon as something better has come along.
  • Courtroom procedurals this nimble don't come along often, but with Anatomy of a Murder, Preminger showed how it could be done.
  • Please photocopy this and pass copies on to anyone else that you feel may wish to come along.
  • Come along, Osmond. No sense in your standing around.
  • He was beginning to regret that he'd come along.
  • But the real estate market is always quite cyclical, and a catalyst will usually come along to buoy markets again.
  • All existing members are asked to please attend on time and new members would be very welcome to come along.
  • All are welcome to come along and watch the toastmasters in action.
  • He motioned to Roo to come along and they made their way to the next establishment, and found it guarded by a shipbuilder and his family. SHADOW OF A DARK QUEEN: BOOK ONE OF THE SERPENTWAR SAGA
  • You wait for your chance to come along and you take it. The Sun
  • There's a big press launch today and you're most welcome to come along.
  • Would now St. Paul would come along that way, and to my breezelessness bring his breeze! Moby Dick; or the Whale
  • He had to rush off afterwards because he was rehearsing for a show but he still found time to come along and help make it an unforgettable night.
  • How come Leopold provides exercises for practising what we today call vibrato, several years before Wolfgang was born, and gives ample indication that the fiddlers around him were using FAR TOO MUCH WOBBLE HABITUALLY, and conductors still come along bright eyed and bushy tailed telling orchestras to use NONE? Archive 2005-03-01
  • And then come along and have some of this cold tongue. The Wind in the Willows
  • Children can come along with their parents and meet Father Christmas.
  • I put on an afternoon tea for my coterie of new international students, inviting former students to come along and share their wisdom.
  • All teenagers - boys and girls - are invited to come along together with their parents.
  • The committee invites all club members as well as non-members to come along and enjoy the fun.
  • If interested why not come along on Tuesday evening at 6.15 pm to The Women's Centre Main Street and enrol.
  • He is now refusing to come along because he wants his own event.
  • She was asked to come along and see her daughter receiving a First Aid Certificate and her surprise was unreal when she saw it was her party in full swing.
  • Don't worry about where the fly is at ... it will come along with the line. I am new to fly fishing and i am practicing my cast.
  • Then the next guy will come along and tell me the sky is azure blue, I'll say, ‘No, no, that's royal blue.’
  • You need not exclude possibilities further afield, but wait for them to come along rather than actively chasing them, which can wait until you are more established. Times, Sunday Times
  • Someday, just the right person will come along for this high-voltage sweetheart.
  • All are welcome to come along and browse among the many clothes (many of which are new) and household items, books etc on sale at rock bottom prices.
  • He told me to come along and try rugby. Times, Sunday Times
  • The time was ripe for a show to come along and engage millions of women with nothing to watch.
  • The bars and food hall will stay open well after racing too so come along and join in the party atmosphere. The Sun
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