Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb past] [adv] come " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although Maidstone was now beginning to display the fact that he was far from sober — his walk was a little unsteady and one or two of his words did not come out exactly right — the visit to the hatshop passed off without any untoward incident . |
| 2 | Even so , words did not come easily to either of us ; for the first time we both realized how very little we knew about each other . |
| 3 | He said , ‘ Your couriers did n't come back . |
| 4 | Declarations did not come in until 1889 , so that Stoddart 's innings was three years before , and that of Collins 10 years after . |
| 5 | However , the overwhelming majority of lay ( non-specialist ) visitors did not come for predominantly educational reasons . |
| 6 | Altogether it was a great evening but reliving our holiday experiences did not come cheap . |
| 7 | She learnt that these plates did not come up to the manufacturer 's high standards and would go back into the melting pot . |
| 8 | If men trained in the learned profession did not , perhaps , scale such heights in the later sixteenth century , at the same time the crossing of career lines did not come to a halt . |
| 9 | The real costs did not come from doing work ( that is , being at sea ) but from not doing work ( that is , sitting idle in port ) . |
| 10 | Although he produced valuable results at St Andrews , his major contributions did not come until later , as half the time he spent there coincided with the First World War , when the laboratories were turned over to the production of pharmaceuticals and fine chemicals . |
| 11 | Raybestos made the factory available for reopening the following Monday , and , though no pickets were placed , the workers did not come into work . |
| 12 | ‘ One of your heroes did n't come home , Tod . |
| 13 | These managers did not come across as having expert power , because they had had minimal training and appeared to be unorganised and therefore unprofessional in their conduct . |
| 14 | The mass popularity of the movies did not come about because showmen gave no thought to individuating their audiences but rather resulted from an appreciation that the most important thing about the public as a whole was that every section and every group would respond to the appeal of the movies if it could be given access to the right kind of cinema . |
| 15 | Whitehead Mann and GKR are different as their consultants did not come from any of the major search firms . |
| 16 | Gould 's efforts did not come quickly enough , and Ortega suffered a crushing defeat , one that Gould predicted in his report last December . |
| 17 | — Bet that bloke on the fruit-machines did n't come down here in a Rover ! ’ |
| 18 | Rastani did not come , and I left occasionally to make my rounds . |
| 19 | I was exp it 's amazing the neighbours did n't come round actually cos we was n't exactly quiet was we ? |
| 20 | Let it be said here that Jackie is not one of the wild ones ; he was never , like a Villeneuve or a Depailler , a death-seeker ; his thrills did not come from risk , from playing Russian roulette with life , and unlike them , he had everything to live for . |
| 21 | We managed perfectly alright a couple of years ago when the buses did n't come up here , we could manage now . ’ |
| 22 | If the new ships did not come , the handful now in the north represented the only sea-force Thorfinn could lay against any fleet Siward might bring . |
| 23 | The girls did not come back from Dublin after their lunch . |
| 24 | The doctors did n't come into it much at all . |
| 25 | While Britain got used to Wilson , the Americans did n't come to terms with the post-Kennedy era . |
| 26 | Yet these and other highly original mathematical developments did not come into their own until the new revolutionary age of physics which began at the end of the century . |
| 27 | Although tankers did not come in for the attention they received in the 1980s , on 25 January Platt 's carried an account of an attack on an Iraqi tanker by US aircraft . |
| 28 | A proper understanding of the electron and other spin-1/2 particles did not come until 1928 , when a theory was proposed by Paul Dirac , who later was elected to the Lucasian Professorship of Mathematics at Cambridge ( the same professorship that Newton had once held and that I now hold ) . |
| 29 | In their report , the prime minister 's advisers did not come out against optical fibres altogether . |
| 30 | An attack to the utmost — offensive a l'outrance — was to be made into Lorraine by the First and Second armies , while the Third and Fifth armies , on their left , would take the offensive north of Metz or , if the Germans did indeed come down through Belgium , strike them in flank . |