Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] come [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 He did not come in the dawning , he did not come at noon ; And out of the tawny sunset , before the rise o " the moon , when the road was a gypsy 's ribbon , looping the purple moor , A red-coat troop came marching
2 He did not come at noon .
3 The case did not come to trial until 1963 .
4 The three did not come to trial until last week when they were each imprisoned for four years .
5 A newsletter writer of August 1692 complained that it was impossible to distinguish between those who did not come to church because they were attending conventicles and those who did not worship God at all , and he predicted the result would be the downfall of the Church of England followed by the triumph of popery .
6 But unlike them she did not come to office during a wartime emergency nor head a coalition government .
7 The swop did not come to light until Arlena , who suffered from a congenital heart defect , had to undergo surgery .
8 ‘ I am desperately sad that our scheme did not come to fruition but I am glad that someone will take it over and bring these jobs to the area .
9 So long as selection policies did not come under scrutiny this was acceptable .
10 It was not a through-road for Saxon or medieval traffic ; it did not come into existence as a boundary ; it was not originally a drove-road , for cattle-drovers took over existing tracks and lanes and did not create their own except in special circumstances .
11 These were enacted in 1986 although most did not come into operation until April 1988 .
12 French studies have argued that this full state monopoly capitalist system did not come into operation until the 1930s .
13 Raybestos made the factory available for reopening the following Monday , and , though no pickets were placed , the workers did not come into work .
14 He could make concessions to his allies and all would be well so long as they did not come into conflict with one another .
15 Social issues were not prominent in the election campaign , with the exception of education , on which the Nonconformists waged a determined anti-Conservative campaign , and land reform , The Liberal government did not come into office committed to a clear social reform policy .
16 As John Biffen remarked on weekend television following the débâcle , ‘ I did not come into politics to be a kamikaze pilot . ’
17 , I am told , did not come into politics , he was born into politics and I understand that his parents were strong and prominent members of the independent Labour Party and the Labour Party .
18 did not come into season ;
19 The term ‘ biology ’ did not come into use until the end of the century , and even then it did not have its modern meaning .
20 This meant , inter alia , that a provision in the contract which allowed him to solicit once employment was over did not come into effect until that contractual period was up .
21 Obligatory use of Annual Percentage Rate was introduced in 1980 , but the main regulations issued under the Act did not come into force until May 1985 .
22 Heads who are asked where that combination took its origin in their individual histories make it clear that it did not come from training .
23 Let it be said here that Jackie is not one of the wild ones ; he was never , like a Villeneuve or a Depailler , a death-seeker ; his thrills did not come from risk , from playing Russian roulette with life , and unlike them , he had everything to live for .
24 He did not come in person .
25 ( 3 ) That , although the court had a discretion to order rectification of the register on the grounds set out in section 82(1) ( a ) to ( h ) of the Land Registration Act 1925 , the section did not contain a general power allowing the court to order rectification of the register in any case in which it thought it just and equitable to do so ; and that , since the defendant no longer alleged fraud and his claim of non est factum had failed , the defendant 's claim did not come within section 82(1) and , therefore , the court had no discretion under the section to order rectification of the register of charges ( post , pp. 683B–C , 685E–F , 688E–F , 689C–D ) .
26 This explains why cases do not come to court when the conditions of my comically weak description of the explicit extension of our legal conventions are met , which is most of the time .
27 They do not come to school as empty vessels .
28 In practice the question of the duration of the disability imposed by the springboard doctrine does not frequently arise because most cases concerning confidential information do not come to trial following the grant of an interlocutory injunction and it can therefore be assumed that either the parties settle the action or that interlocutory judgment is treated as final .
29 Yet of course many projects do not come to fruition for very many years , and large important projects lead to adverse short-term cash flows .
30 I do not come of age until I am twenty-five and my father 's consent was needed for me to marry .
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