Example sentences of "the [noun pl] [vb past] come " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the visas did come through they were dated 5 September . |
| 2 | Surely if the judges did come to their decision on the grounds of relative merit , they should be prepared to defend it ? |
| 3 | Hieronym Dudowski , that rare creature , a Kaszubian poet , doubtless caused much scratching of heads when he coined his slogan ‘ No Kaszubia without Poland — No Poland without Kaszubia ’ , but slowly the Kaszubians did come to see their own survival as lying in the resurrection of an independent Poland rather than in the straightjacket of Prussian-German citizenship . |
| 4 | Erm I think perhaps it was a good move in a , in a , in a way , I was , when the children did come along i you know I was , we were al I was all together under one roof . |
| 5 | And when the children did come to school I often got the feeling that they were merely being ‘ contained ’ rather than involved . |
| 6 | The Tories did come near to letting Neil Kinnock steal the election from us , but if the party either blames it all on Chris Patten or just forgets the matter as a bad dream , it would not deserve to win next time . |