Example sentences of "[not/n't] [verb] [pers pn] come " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lost in her condemnation of the two young men at the table , she had not heard him come in . |
| 2 | No , I 'm not suggesting you come and sit with a stopwatch , because I think that would distract you . |
| 3 | My educational colleagues are a hard-bitten lot and I had not expected them to come out as complete ‘ quality ’ converts . |
| 4 | ‘ I did not know it came from them ! ’ he muttered . |
| 5 | The landlord had not noticed him come in , or he would have refused to serve him . |
| 6 | I did n't really blame you for not wanting me to come near you , but it was n't a particularly pleasant experience to realise that I 'd put someone I 'd loved through such an appalling time . |
| 7 | When he was not looking I came down and took the car . |
| 8 | Go out to get not let it come in . |
| 9 | This was the essence of the problem : the press could only be managed by someone who knew their methods and who would not expect them to come round to Central Office to search for news . |
| 10 | In his more pessimistic moments some rogue part of his mind knew this darkness to be inevitable , although he did not expect it to come in his time , maybe not even in his son 's . |
| 11 | Director of OEM and technology licensing for IBM 's advanced workstations and systems division , Lucian Bifano said ‘ Since the [ PowerPC ] agreement with Motorola and Apple 18 months ago , we speculated on who would be the first to market with a product ; we certainly did not expect it to come four months after our October announcement of the first silicon ’ . |
| 12 | I can not believe he came without Airey Neave 's permission , but it did not look a very comfortable arrangement , and I declined . |
| 13 | At one stage she somehow got on to the subject of coal and said she simply did not believe it came from wood . |
| 14 | The young man and the girl did not see him coming and he caught them both around their legs and knocked them onto the floor . |
| 15 | I did not see him come in but looked up to find him standing suddenly between two columns . |
| 16 | Then it comes , and John does not see it coming at all . |
| 17 | But I did not stop him coming back , and do not , I beg of you , ask me to try and explain that . |
| 18 | ‘ I should not wish her to come yet . |
| 19 | ‘ You 're not saying he came to the salon just for conversation ? ’ |
| 20 | Shareholders are requested to complete and return the proxy card , but this does not preclude them coming to the meeting and voting in person . |
| 21 | They will not let him come home because the baby has no immunity . |
| 22 | I thought that was ever so nice of Edna not to mind me coming . |
| 23 | Whenever Annunciata came to fetch the child she was firm : he must go at once or otherwise his mother would be displeased and might not allow him to come at all . |
| 24 | ‘ They said they would not allow him to come otherwise so here I am , ’ says Marci . |
| 25 | She 'd been so engrossed that she had n't heard him come in . |
| 26 | Or it may be there but the police and the stewards are n't allowing it to come out because they 're keeping a lid on it so efficiently these days . |
| 27 | You ca n't make them come off they 're blimming boots . |
| 28 | Well Susan said I ca n't make her come if she does n't want to come . |
| 29 | I find that other kind of sound very forgiving ; I can get through it technically , but I ca n't make it come alive the way somebody else could . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ I know you did n't want me to come here tonight , but there is an enchanted magician in that box and I promised him that I would get him to you so that you could change him back . |