Example sentences of "did [not/n't] [vb infin] [pron] come " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 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 ’ .
3 But I did not stop him coming back , and do not , I beg of you , ask me to try and explain that .
4 At one stage she somehow got on to the subject of coal and said she simply did not believe it came from wood .
5 I did not see him come in but looked up to find him standing suddenly between two columns .
6 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 .
7 Because Uncle Mosse left his door unlocked all the time at the end and he did not mind who came in and out , as he said .
8 Homoeopathy did not help him either but at his third visit he commented that he did not know which came first , his sinus problem or his depression .
9 But she did not know what came next .
10 ‘ I did not know it came from them ! ’ he muttered .
11 ‘ But I did n't tell you to come here .
12 ‘ I did n't tell you to come back , ’ he barked at Kaas in German .
13 ‘ 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 .
14 ‘ I thought she did n't want me to come . ’
15 One day my mum rang up and said she did n't want me to come home again and that I should go to Social Services because she was sick and tired of all the bother and everything .
16 ‘ Mummy did n't want me to come here , ’ she told Anne in what Anne thought of as a ‘ far back ’ voice , ‘ but I did n't want to arse around playing Lady Bountiful I wanted to do real war work .
17 Nigel was fond enough of him in his way , but he did n't want him coming home too soon .
18 You knew he was there , wherever you were on the pitch and you did n't want him coming in behind you trying to get the ball . ’
19 ‘ I did n't want him to come for me .
20 By the time he got outside Adam was already there , telling the man in the handkerchief hat that he did n't want him to come any more , he was going to sell the house .
21 ‘ I did n't want him — I did n't want him to come near me — so I locked myself in the bathroom , with Gary-I did n't know what else to do .
22 it must have been Thursday because I did n't want him to come , I said to Jim , tell him not to come we 'll just turn the whole lot off .
23 ‘ That is precisely why I did n't want you to come to the hospital .
24 A friend who had a key let herself in and called upstairs , but I did n't want anyone to come into the bedroom because they might catch whatever it was I had .
25 ‘ Good job we did n't meet it coming the other way , then , ’ said Masklin .
26 I did n't expect him to come . ’
27 ‘ But you did n't expect me to come . ’
28 He did n't expect us to come rolling out of the pubs drunk , and the Yorkshire pudding to get flung at the ceiling with the gravy running down the walls like the tears of a black madonna .
29 I did n't expect you to come so soon . ’
30 ‘ Oh — I did n't expect you to come round again .
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