Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] come [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Was there a major breakthrough when this confession did come to light ? |
| 2 | ‘ Though maggoty meat and people with one eye did come into it at one point . |
| 3 | When war did come on Bank Holiday Saturday — 4th August — young Kenny was nowhere to be seen , but John was in his same position , shouting loudly to the crowd as usual . |
| 4 | The imperial and defence campaigns perhaps did something to prepare the nation for war and they certainly prepared the parry to take the lead when war did come in 1914 . |
| 5 | Your reaction did come as a shock , you know . |
| 6 | I mean , suppose I am right and the glass ball did come from Vic 's collection . |
| 7 | The thought did come to his mind a week or so later that she might have been in love with him , but it seemed a ludicrous idea as well as self-congratulatory , and he put it by . |
| 8 | We can not imagine it , yet it is possible , and if such a change did come to one of us , there would be pain for both and merely afterwards friendship … |
| 9 | The railway did come to Stamford in the end , but even then the influence of the Cecils remained and is still visible . |
| 10 | Non-existent until about I should n't think there was an a bus did come to the bottom of Road , I ca n't remember what was , it must have been about nineteen twenty I suppose something like that , it used to go to the bottom of Road and turn round there , but I never er my mother always used to say you 'd ruin the trade , the trade down well I do n't believe it did really er now I think the lack of transport now you 've hit something there , lack of transport there encouraged people to shop in Green rather to go down the town cos you could get anything off Green you know , you just think you 'd ju you , you smiled about the er butcher 's shops , the grocer 's shops , the cake shops , you could get the gents , you could get anything on Green the ironmonger shop , you need n't go anywhere else but , when they started transport er yes I think the buses had quite a bit gradually cos things that , you do n't think get things happening in this country overnight I mean , they grow on you do n't they ? |
| 11 | ’ One thing did come to my notice ’ , I said . |
| 12 | When their secondment did come to an end , 22 returned to their former jobs , 7 continued their secondments , 14 moved to another employer and 7 entered entirely new jobs . |
| 13 | again after the war , in this country , they erm , the lighting manufacturers never got round to it , there are too many er , there 's , there was too much call for er lighting in offices , shops , schools and that sort of thing and er , so a lot of the idea did come from abroad at first , the er Fin |
| 14 | Whether or not any such implied agreement did come into existence must depend on the terms upon which the money was paid by Woolwich , as set out in letters from Woolwich to the revenue dated 12 June and 15 September 1986 , construed in the light of the surrounding circumstances . |
| 15 | Material did come to me at EMI Publishing from EMI Records , and if we were interested in an act who were also looking for a record deal , we would pass the information through to EMI Records . |
| 16 | This first stage did come on reading Thomas Malthus 's ( 1766 — 1834 ) Essay on the Principle of Population , on 28 September 1838 ; after a generational conjecture — that higher animal foetuses are initially hermaphrodite — had led him to Adolphe Quetelet 's findings on the sex ratio at birth and so , it seems , to Malthus as an author linked by a reviewer with the Belgian social statistician ( Schweber , 1977 ) . |
| 17 | In fact , when the Labour Party did come to power in 1964 , the only documentation they possessed on this subject was a single sheet of paper provided by myself , recommending among other things the establishment of rent officers , an idea in which I was subsequently able to interest Dick Crossman . |