Example sentences of "[pers pn] do not come [adv] to " in BNC.

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1 And , as so often , I did not come back to bed .
2 I did not come back to international rugby just to be the grandad of the B side .
3 But I did not come close to any but my outward gestures .
4 These are the only role models for young women ; you feel inferior if you do n't come up to those standards , even though you know it 's a ridiculous stereotype .
5 You do n't come to the office , you do n't come again to my home … ’
6 She did n't come back to Low Birk Hatt .
7 We did n't come up to expectations … ’ his eyes suddenly brightened .
8 he did n't really like it , but he had a lovely week , but at least we did n't come back to a house that 's full of
9 Still , we do not come close to one local village which was left a field , the rents from which for centuries provided the poor with half-a-dozen sacks of coal ; but then the village sold its field to a property developer .
10 They did n't come here to be monsters , presumably .
11 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 .
12 That 's why I dress like a policeman , so they do n't come up to you .
13 He did not come across to people as an inflexible ideologue , but as a sensible sincere man with a good sense of humor and a friendly interest in other people 's concerns .
14 I 've brought him , I 've brought him at half five , because I was at the bus stop , leaning on the lamp-post and it was about twenty five past , and then he did n't come along to the next stop by and it got to twenty five
15 You , you know , you , you got over it but er he , he did n't re he did n't come back to you when perhaps he could 've done if he was feeling a bit er aggressive at the time .
16 He did n't come down to rehearsals too much after that .
17 He had never written verse of this kind before , and it did not come easily to him : the drafts of these scenes underwent most revision .
18 She had once told Stephanie , whom she trusted , though it did not come easily to her to make confidences to her daughters , that she was possessed by physical loathing of Lucas Simmonds and of what contact — she was not specific — he might have had with her son .
19 She could put it on , like a posh accent , but it did n't come naturally to her .
20 He does n't come up to the desk straightaway , but gives me a nod and starts looking at the flowers , really closely , like he really knew about them .
21 Having said that , lately I 've heard him and he 's trying to get back some of his fire , but the originals , the ‘ Disraeli Gears ’ album and the Bluesbreakers … he does n't come close to the fire that 's on those songs any more .
22 He 's had to learn how to deal with the public ; it does not come easily to him . "
23 ‘ Perhaps it does not come naturally to us .
24 I am completely undomesticated and disorganised — it does n't come naturally to me to be a houseperson .
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