Example sentences of "they do [not/n't] come " in BNC.

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1 They did not come .
2 Ten arrests were made on Easter Saturday , with eight of those detained being charged and bailed on condition that they did not come within 15 miles of the Molesworth base .
3 Either they did not come back or they returned by another route .
4 He used almost völkisch language , claiming that the Romanians ( unlike the Hungarian , German and other minorities ) were ‘ autochthonous ’ : ‘ They did not come from elsewhere , they did not fall down from the sky ; they were born and lived here , in this land , and they defended it with their blood . ’
5 He could make concessions to his allies and all would be well so long as they did not come into conflict with one another .
6 They did not come .
7 But they did not come .
8 You may have seen one or two before , but I make no excuse for showing them again as on the last occasion they did not come out very well .
9 Sad to relate , they did not come to Northern Ireland at all !
10 They did not come near Lucie , Izzie or Gabriel , and had to be kept from starving with little presents of food left furtively on their threshold .
11 The rioters , who held the streets of London for three days after Wilkes ' election , although they did not come exclusively from the working classes , were still overwhelmingly so composed .
12 They did not come again .
13 On this occasion they did not come to us and say right we want to negotiate , although several times we went to them and said please , here 's our budget , you know , our budget is now ready , we want to negotiate .
14 They did n't come up again — I du n no where they went .
15 Mary Vorse pinpointed ‘ the time when old age finally claimed me ’ as the ‘ moment when my two boys were more thoughtful of me , when they did n't come to me any more with their perplexities . ’
16 Now I am well aware that times have changed and in these more liberal-minded days such a remark might pass with only a raised eyebrow or two , but in 1944 men did not use four-letter swear words in front of girls , be they ever so lowly — and they did n't come much more lowly than we were .
17 They did n't come here to be monsters , presumably .
18 They did n't come over at Christmas because she 's i' bed wi' bronchitis .
19 We knew they were geologists … they did n't come in contact with anybody on the island , they did n't tell people what they were doing or what they were looking for .
20 They did n't come haring towards them as if the mere sight of them was the best thing that had happened all day .
21 I tried to take some pictures but I scrapped them , they did n't come near to showing how I felt . ’
22 The playhouse in the Harlow is about the people in Harlow and about the people that come in from outside of Harlow I 'm very conscious that we do serve a very wide community and I am pleased that people with other sounds come and support the theatre has been rightly said if they did n't come in to Harlow to support the theatre we would have major problems .
23 They come once to Styal , they did n't come to Bullwood Hall , and I think they came to Askham Grange once .
24 I tried to take some pictures but I scrapped them , they did n't come near to showing how I felt . ’
25 And also I think because a lot of publicity erm was given to the actual arrest figures , and to the fact that they did n't come from the local area .
26 Mostly , they did n't come by at all .
27 Even in the worst years of the Depression there were still people wealthy enough to give their cast-offs to the poor , and they did n't come much poorer than a Salvation Army officer 's family .
28 He called out to them , but they did n't come back .
29 And if they did n't come out in segments , then the middle fell out as you transferred the pale object to your plate .
30 So as I say I , I found Friday very useful , I found the er , the renewed routines , although we , I mean we all had lots of problems with the videos , they did n't come out but it did n't really matter because the three of us in our group sat there and very openly , very honestly , and without any personal animosity whatsoever helped each other and that again , as I say very useful and so above all a and I think it 's something that I feel very strongly about because we have n't talked to people we 've , in English , understandable language about what this is all about .
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