Example sentences of "not come [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The sudden change had not come easy to him , and even now he found himself muttering ‘ Mam ’ under his breath because that old name was somehow special and precious . |
| 2 | He 's not come all this way to twiddle his thumbs . ’ |
| 3 | I decided that I had not come all this way only to indulge in polite conversation . |
| 4 | The Government has failed to add any convincing arguments to its feeble justifications for the changes , and dares not come clean about the real reasons . |
| 5 | The Government still have not come clean about the information revealed in a Select Committee appendix . |
| 6 | Precisely this question was raised at an earlier stage in our discussions , and I pointed out then that the Government had not come clean at all on the issue of freight and what would happen to freight . |
| 7 | They had not come unprepared . |
| 8 | NORWICH CITY 'S leadership of the Premier League has been given more last rites than Eldorado , and they were fortunate not to come unstuck against El Tel . |
| 9 | ‘ It 's absolute humbug for cricket 's administrators not to come clean and tell the cricketing world everything that took place inside Lord 's famous pavilion that Sunday . ’ |
| 10 | Thus although news executives continued to value ‘ scoops ’ , Tunstall found in the 1970s that among journalists themselves , it was more important not to come last with the news than to be first with it ( Tunstall , 1971 ) . |
| 11 | ‘ I 've decided not to come any more . |
| 12 | You were not coming strong . |
| 13 | ‘ I 'm not coming any more for yer ter use me . |
| 14 | ‘ No , he 's not coming this way , so I ca n't get a close look , but I 'm sure it 's not him . ’ |
| 15 | And see who 's not coming this year that did last year . |
| 16 | Sherry 's a food , I 'm not coming this month . |
| 17 | Poppy , as we were now calling her , began to get used to me , but would still not come close . |
| 18 | Packaging and handling charges do not come cheap , so what 's the point of paying for ten plastic packets along with the extra labour when you could buy one box containing 100 hooks and save up to 33 per cent ? |
| 19 | But the slip dresses in the catwalk picture do not come cheap and to achieve this daring look you need to buy not one , but two dresses ( not for the faint-hearted , being virtually see-through ) making a total retail cost of £522 . |
| 20 | The Odd Fellows has worked out average charges and the overall bills do not come cheap . |
| 21 | Such art patronage does not come cheap . |
| 22 | More a matter of the amount of time required … excessive … good coaching does not come cheap … ’ |
| 23 | But innovation does not come cheap . |
| 24 | But all this does not come cheap . |
| 25 | Mr Llambias ' services do not come cheap — they are a combination of a retainer ‘ sufficient to make them think really seriously ’ and a success fee that is a percentage of the fee income of the smaller firm ( sometimes 5% or 7.5% ) — but he prides himself on the longevity of the mergers he arranges . |
| 26 | Interstellar spacecraft , and the computers to control them , do not come cheap . |
| 27 | But the most precious gem of all does not come cheap . |
| 28 | Car hire , petrol , food and drink do not come cheap . |
| 29 | Poole 's work is much in demand , and he does not come cheap . |
| 30 | The souvenir , a view of Brodick Castle , does not come cheap , it is on the back of our £20 notes . |