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

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1 But they all did n't come at one time , they were always had new ones coming again .
2 So it obviously did n't come from the cards .
3 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 .
4 Of course John , her husband , told Elizabeth that Ivy had been right about the fuse-boxes : they just had n't come to her notice , so she had to eat humble pie .
5 Moreover , the fact that they usually did not come from commercial backgrounds and were stationed in political capitals rather than commercial or industrial centres also tended to limit their effectiveness .
6 But talk about a hassle they wanted , they , well they picked the be the pr you know the present that you c you claim erm , a deep fryer and I think it was in March time and by July it still had n't come in spite of ringing and writing and everything else
7 What I wanted to say was that when I read the Annual Report I was rather surprised to find that there is no reference to the er report of the committee under the chairmanship of Bob , Bob on the organization of the R Y A and then I realized that it probably did n't come to the Council till after the end of the year that we have under consideration but it did seem to me that it has some contentious and some very interesting and rather good points in it and I wonder if we could be told how the consideration of it is getting on .
8 The ‘ oldest profession ’ probably did n't come into being until man had started settling into agricultural communities around 15,000 BC .
9 He had a Personal Assistant who er , well did n't come into the reckoning really erm because he merely erm was filled in when Mr could n't er attend various functions .
10 Age simply did n't come into the kind of relationship we had .
11 Walking back through the jungle I thankfully did n't come across any trap-door spiders but as dusk fell I was entranced by a cluster of trees which were suddenly lit up like Christmas trees by the thousands of glow-worms out for a night of passion .
12 The second goal amazingly did n't come until the second half , courtesy of a goalkeeping lapse from Devine .
13 The terminologies which demonstrated the existence of this stage , again did not come from those people who were believed to practise the associated form of marriage .
14 ‘ It certainly did n't come from me , ’ he shrugged .
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