Example sentences of "[coord] [pron] [vb past] come " in BNC.
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| 1 | These are judges who accept ‘ no grovelling on the part of prisoners ’ , even those who play on having a relative in the RUC ( and we did come across a policeman who believed that his brother had been treated leniently in court as a result of this connection with the force ) . |
| 2 | Erm and it , it was us , I mean not only do we , I mean we develop her a a response , that means , we , we work with Councillor 's we work with Senior Officer 's in other departments and we look at the policy angles , like for example with , with that piece of legislation , when , when we first realised what the impact for that legislation was , it was gon na mean that we were ten million pound short in our housing money basically , that was , that was what it looked like on the surface and you think oh my god how you gon na make up for that short fall , that would mean an eleven pound a week rise in rent , that 's what it worked out as , so , well we ca n't do that , how , and then you have to look at the legislation and you say what are the loop holes here , and erm , and it involves contacting outside organisations and getting there opinion and finding out what other Council 's are doing and responding to things like this , and we did come up with a way , of , of reducing that deficit , but that 's the kind of thing we do . |
| 3 | And they did come out more or less straight away and well I say drop a bit in |
| 4 | I do n't like doing movies anymore but I really enjoyed this , ’ and he did come up with a very eloquent retraction , which no one printed . ’ |
| 5 | They would definitely , at least , break even , and it did come to bear a few times . |
| 6 | and it did come true , cos when I was in the room there I could hear |
| 7 | They 've given her something and she , she had to put this stuff on her hair , had to take a trip to the hairdresser and he said to the hairdresser comb my hair first and then put this stuff on and wait for a fortnight and it did come a little lighter , but it was n't much |
| 8 | I went to Croke Park and I had not the slightest interest in Protestantism but I did come from a Fermanagh family where you did live cheek by jowl with republicanism so I had imbibed it undoubtedly and it resurfaced , the inherited knowledge of the heart of the controversy in Ulster . |
| 9 | Abruptly she let go of the last protective remnants of self-deception , but , fearing questions she could n't answer without exposing the full extent of her vulnerability , she rushed on , ‘ I felt guilty to begin with , but I did come to terms with it eventually , and anyway , my parents had encouraged me to stay with radio even though it would take me away from them and they knew what was happening to Dad . ’ |
| 10 | But you did come out , so I may hope that you can be induced to vary your quiet days with |
| 11 | Okay I that would have been okay in that particular case but you did come back to it as benefit , you say we have n't seen you for such a long time that was a not just look at your policies but to put a , a face to the name so I can become your point of reference |
| 12 | But you did come back and you had the , the figures to hand . |
| 13 | Erm I was , I , I thought that , when you covered all the policies you then went through and summarized all the needs and I thought you were n't going to go back and , and er explore further so what you did is you covered all the policies and then you summarized everything and then explored all the needs and s and at one point I thought that you were n't actually going to do that but you did come back and do it , you just did it in a different way . |
| 14 | My mother did n't go to the moon but she did come to my bedside . |
| 15 | As there is no soil at all on this rocky islet vegetation is almost non-existent , but we did come across a few tenacious rock plants growing from the guano in rock crevices . |
| 16 | There were , how ever , considerable practical problems for the Central Authority in disciplining this instinct by devising measures of performance alternative to the profit yardstick , The Area Board barons liked to keep the Central Authority distant from their own fiefs , but they did come to court to bargain on the issues which had to be resolved between them ; and when they did this personal and political factors could be as important as commercial or economic ones . |
| 17 | But he did come upon the little house that was waiting for him , in a clearing in the depths , and was cheered by the lines of yellow light he could see between and under the shutters . |
| 18 | Of course when the baths were made there were ladies days and gents days , mixed bathing was considered not the thing in these days , but it did come in in the twenty or the , or the late twenties . |