Example sentences of "[noun sg] do come to " in BNC.

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1 Was there a major breakthrough when this confession did come to light ?
2 Yes , one picture does come to mind : before I broke away we lay facing , learning each other 's features in this new light .
3 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 .
4 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 …
5 The railway did come to Stamford in the end , but even then the influence of the Cecils remained and is still visible .
6 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 ?
7 ’ One thing did come to my notice ’ , I said .
8 The haulier should take the greatest care in making sure his employees are fairly treated if their employment does come to an end .
9 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 .
10 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 .
11 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 .
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