Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] [adv] come " in BNC.
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| 1 | The brothers enjoyed the hedonistic pleasures of the big city 's pleasures that did not come cheaply . |
| 2 | So within a hundred years , man learnt to make recordings of sound with sufficient fidelity to fool the human ear — at least , sounds that did not come from several different points in space at the same time . |
| 3 | They had crossed more than half a mile of open pasture without a trace of cover , expecting every moment some attack that did not come . |
| 4 | The responsibility for drawing the first furrow on a narrow stetch was one the head horseman could not afford to delegate , unless it was to a man equally skilled as himself ; for a stetch that did not come out , at every point , exactly to the inch would render ineffective the use of implements that had been designed specially for it ; again , a botched stetch was visible to all — to the casual passer-by and to the practised eye of his neighbour ; and the ‘ loss of face ’ a head horseman suffered through allowing the standard of his own work to be below that of the next farm 's was enough to make him ensure that every field was laid out and ploughed with as much care as patience and long-practised skill made possible . |
| 5 | Before that , on their left , was a speck of light that did n't come from ditch or cutting , but from the tunnel so laboriously bored , and whose end John 's sappers had now finally opened . |
| 6 | They were just movies that did n't come together — poorly executed , I guess . |
| 7 | I 'd never do anything that did n't come easily to me . |
| 8 | that 's a smashing one that did n't come up on Sunday either determination yeah . |
| 9 | ‘ There were traces of cotton fibre in the blood on the girl 's body that did n't come from her own clothing . |
| 10 | Erm the er desire that I twelve conveys to encourage district councils to make special provision in their you know to emphasize high density employment in their city centres is understood , no quarrel with that , but if you ca n't , if you feel unable er at county level to be absolutely explicit , that a district would be free if it so chose , it might not choose to do so , if it so chose to make I twelve decisions that did n't come out of its I five , er they would n't have to come out of its I five allocations , unless you can be clear that they 're free to do that , erm it suggests to me sir that may be it 's I twelve that 's that 's getting in the way , erm and w that might well be something we can do without . |
| 11 | You have to remember them , it 's nice to be back and we have n't changed at all , but you do remember those that did n't come back . |
| 12 | Kark Weschke , at the Redfern Gallery , is Expressionist in a more orthodox fashion — not surprisingly , since he was born in Germany in 1925 and did not come to England until 1948 . |
| 13 | Effort and application were not needed in the first instance and did not come easily when the need arose . |
| 14 | The sellers gave the buyers a delivery note to enable them to collect the spirit from X. However , the buyers chose to keep it at X 's and did not come to remove it for some months by which time it had deteriorated . |
| 15 | All Cluniac abbeys and priories were directly subject to the abbot of Cluny and to the pope and did not come under the supervision of the diocesan . |
| 16 | They had passed out as a result of the good time had by all and did not come to until the evening . |
| 17 | ‘ She went under a desk and did n't come out for four days . |
| 18 | The issue was settled when Winton dived into a black hole and did n't come out again . |
| 19 | Every day when Dad came home from work he went into the bedroom and did n't come out . |
| 20 | And them that 's been drinking and that and did n't come b back |
| 21 | But then he went into a bad fit and did n't come out of it . |
| 22 | She lived in Jesselton and did n't come back to school in England because her mother is a teacher and educated Anne at home in what seemed to me a rather rough and ready fashion . |
| 23 | Er I I us I used to go by half past five , have my tea early and did n't come out till about nine o'clock . |
| 24 | But they , they sailed sort of first thing in the morning and did n't come back till last thing at |
| 25 | and did n't come back . |
| 26 | Makarios accepted but did not come . |
| 27 | A man looking classically like a detective passed down the corridor but did not come into our carriage . |