Example sentences of "[art] [noun] [vb past] come " in BNC.
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1 | When the visas did come through they were dated 5 September . |
2 | Surely if the judges did come to their decision on the grounds of relative merit , they should be prepared to defend it ? |
3 | Then on the rare occasion that the ball did come , of course , she missed it . |
4 | When the applause did come it was deafening , and she stood there unsmiling , though with her head bobbing up and down in acceptance of the appreciation . |
5 | 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 . |
6 | Hieronym Dudowski , that rare creature , a Kaszubian poet , doubtless caused much scratching of heads when he coined his slogan ‘ No Kaszubia without Poland — No Poland without Kaszubia ’ , but slowly the Kaszubians did come to see their own survival as lying in the resurrection of an independent Poland rather than in the straightjacket of Prussian-German citizenship . |
7 | The railway did come to Stamford in the end , but even then the influence of the Cecils remained and is still visible . |
8 | From what we know when the information did come through , it was sometimes partial and often faulty . |
9 | Er , you know , well of course they were young girls and er , you see and there 's , there was nothing we could do , you see , and , and er , anyway the doctor , as soon as the doctor did come , it was because th the young staff er they had to , they took her away to the mortuary , you see and erm then I , I had to carry on with her work and , and do the best I could and mine as well , you see , but of course er the Manager he appointed another Assistant Manager to go and collect the money which I used to do got it in because I took her times of duty as well and er , you see , and then after that er after several weeks I suppose it was , I do n't know how many because I forget how many , that they appointed me as Manageress and I was in that position for twelve years , you see and |
10 | Erm I think perhaps it was a good move in a , in a , in a way , I was , when the children did come along i you know I was , we were al I was all together under one roof . |
11 | And when the children did come to school I often got the feeling that they were merely being ‘ contained ’ rather than involved . |
12 | And the press did come down , I mean it got some coverage . |
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 | So I would think that would probably be the only way we would protect ourselves if the threat did come … . |
15 | And when the time did come , there was great rejoicing in the land that Britain had recovered its sense of purpose and destiny . |
16 | But , if the time did come when she needed another confidante , Bridget was the person she would choose . |
17 | They put a red blanket over her in the ambulance and it was soft to her touch but then the pain did come , up in the wall of her back as if something was being pulled away like the backing from sticking plaster . |
18 | The Tories did come near to letting Neil Kinnock steal the election from us , but if the party either blames it all on Chris Patten or just forgets the matter as a bad dream , it would not deserve to win next time . |
19 | 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 … |
20 | It 's true you know if a di if a child did come out the gate , with that wee fella yesterday I saw him he was with Ryan and he went up that path like lightning . |
21 | We even had a hot line set up between the reception at London Weekend and Number 10 , and a call did come through , but thankfully it was after we 'd done the show , when she was having a drink in the hospitality room . |
22 | A bus did come , but not surprisingly it was not going through the City as it usually did . |
23 | 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 ? |
24 | This year , however , a volunteer did come forward : Routledge UK sales manager Alan Leitch . |