Come
Come verb - To move closer to.
Tell
Tell verb - To give an oral or written account of in some detail.
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
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Elmo gets very terrified about this, until some real firefighters come and tell him everything will be just fine.
Source: Very Special Episode - Morale is down so the Pointy-Haired Boss takes drastic action - he hires someone to come and tell the staff that it'll be okay.
Source: Break The Motivational Speaker - Gabriel Gray/Sylar: [to Chandra] When I was a kid I used to wish some stranger would come and tell me my family wasn't really my family.
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