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

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1 I 'd better not come down , ’ said Rachaela .
2 Only when they were returning home in the dusk did James say , ‘ You 'll be right not to come back to Bewick .
3 You 'd best not come back , ’ she added .
4 She goes , No but the point is that people kill for drugs which probably is right , I do n't know , so she says , We 're just not coming down .
5 Doctor see about this hair of mine , it 's just not coming back in .
6 Well it has just not come through .
7 The government has still not come up with a dump for the masses of intermediate wastes , such as fuel cladding , that the plant would produce .
8 The old scribe would shake his head : ‘ I could have tried for 20 years and still not come up with an opening paragraph like that , ’ he would say .
9 She had still not come up with anything brilliant when ten minutes later someone rang her doorbell fairly aggressively .
10 Poor Daisy , disapproved of from both sides ( for Joszef 's family had still not come round , though she had adopted their religion ) .
11 She could 've talked to me for ten years and still not come out with it .
12 He and Elinor had been to the council offices and I had still not come home when they got back .
13 In the morning Tobermory had still not come home .
14 When he left the house — Jessica had still not come down — he drove in the McCausland car to the heart of Belfast , where he went to an office in a grey , featureless building and followed up the leads .
15 When all else fails and people are still not coming forward in sufficient numbers to meet the targets , then persuasion escalates into coercion .
16 The Belgian 's main lesson , though , was probably not to come back to Scotland in February .
17 Goering 's second flight had also not come off .
18 Did it really not come down to a fear of the knife ?
19 The reply of the polytechnics to this charge is that while they are fully prepared to maintain part-time provision at a high level , students are simply not coming forward in sufficient numbers to make it possible .
20 There were visits of this kind at which institutions were told flatly not to come back to the CNAA for validation , for a variety of reasons .
21 ‘ So will I ask you for forty-two pounds today and then not come near you for a month ? ’
22 Similarly in Britain , a party can win several thousand votes in each constituency yet not come out top of the poll in any ; in consequence , it amasses a large popular vote but no seats in Parliament .
23 He had seen his earliest pupils , as had my father , either not come back at all , or come back broken men .
24 Why not come on down , five thirty p.m .
25 ‘ Gay — why not come here ? ’ she wrote .
26 ‘ I tell you what , ’ he said , after thinking for a few seconds , ‘ as you 're so keen on horses why not come up to the farm when you 've got some time to spare and help my young niece in the stables ?
27 Then why not come down and have a day 's shooting next Saturday , ’ Fraser suggested .
28 Look why not come down to my cottage now , and we 'll have lunch there — I never have much more than just a picnic myself — then we can go across this afternoon , and maybe take tea to have on the island ?
29 Well , why not , why not come down hard on them ?
30 Why not come out arid say it in this day and age , she muttered to herself as she dialled the number .
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