Example sentences of "not come [adv] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | This had to be some wonderful dream , because Felipe de Santis would not come here to England and seek her out . |
| 2 | You will probably be less able to cope with the pressures of life ; the ability to cope and be relaxed does not come easily to a body that indulges in too little physical activity and is unhealthy . |
| 3 | Unlike the others , sleep did not come easily to her before a job . |
| 4 | Horse riding did not come easily to him , and he had to bathe in Epsom salts every night to soothe his acting legs and behind . |
| 5 | Command did not come easily to him , He dropped his eyes . |
| 6 | The game of persuasion did not come easily to the interrogator . |
| 7 | He considered himself to be his own master , and deference to this aristocratic head of Russian Intelligence , Count Zhinsky , did not come easily to him . |
| 8 | Because ordinary people are more familiar with these kinds of common-sense perspectives in their everyday lives a sociological approach does not come easily to them . |
| 9 | He had never written verse of this kind before , and it did not come easily to him : the drafts of these scenes underwent most revision . |
| 10 | She had once told Stephanie , whom she trusted , though it did not come easily to her to make confidences to her daughters , that she was possessed by physical loathing of Lucas Simmonds and of what contact — she was not specific — he might have had with her son . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | My ladies find it a sad chore since reading Latin does not come easily to them , and after a day spent poring over official parchments my own eyes ache so . ’ |
| 13 | He 's had to learn how to deal with the public ; it does not come easily to him . " |
| 14 | High academic success did not come immediately to Roberts — he went as an undergraduate to the University of California at Los Angeles ( UCLA ) rather than the prestigious Cal-Tech , because his high school grades were too low for the latter . |
| 15 | ‘ He did not come across to people as an inflexible ideologue , but as a sensible sincere man with a good sense of humor and a friendly interest in other people 's concerns . |
| 16 | Still , we do not come close to one local village which was left a field , the rents from which for centuries provided the poor with half-a-dozen sacks of coal ; but then the village sold its field to a property developer . |
| 17 | As with so many of Stockman 's ambitions , this one did not come close to full realization ; nevertheless , in the early months of Reagan 's first term , the legislature was repeatedly upstaged and out-manoeuvred by the White House . |
| 18 | But I did not come close to any but my outward gestures . |
| 19 | Until we begin to recognise our responsibility for the current situation , we will not come close to finding a solution that will lead African families to choose to have smaller families . |
| 20 | For instance , an invisible pollution might not come readily to attention if an officer decides against sampling in the interests of easing the load on the laboratory : in the example above officers had reported that the water was ‘ clear and satisfactory ’ . |
| 21 | The pithy violence of Shostakovich 's First Sonata does not come naturally to her , but she is at home in the limpid impressionism of Rachmaninov 's G major Prelude , which on its own makes this disc worth having . |
| 22 | ‘ Perhaps it does not come naturally to us . |
| 23 | The Environmental Health Officers who are highly trained in all aspects of health and hygiene , are ‘ in the business of changing people 's behaviour — as hygiene does not come naturally to the majority of people ’ . |
| 24 | The personal skills necessary to conclude negotiations successfully in Japan do not come naturally to the Westerner . |
| 25 | You do n't come to the office , you do n't come again to my home … ’ |
| 26 | They did n't come here to be monsters , presumably . |
| 27 | I 'd never do anything that did n't come easily to me . |
| 28 | No , no they just take your word for it and now I have got as I said , I 've got that , I 've got to paint that over and reseal and I 've got to make sure that nobody makes a mess in there , but the plumber said what you really need to do is to get rid of this cheap and tatty , horrible plastic tray which does n't come right to the edge of the tiles |
| 29 | This does n't come automatically to a dyslexic person very often , and we also look at letters from left to right , but if you look at a u and then turn it upside down in your mind , you have an n , or h and y can be reversed to turn into each other , if you like , in the same way . |
| 30 | Having said that , lately I 've heard him and he 's trying to get back some of his fire , but the originals , the ‘ Disraeli Gears ’ album and the Bluesbreakers … he does n't come close to the fire that 's on those songs any more . |