Example sentences of "[vb past] [not/n't] [vb infin] [pers pn] to 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 n't tell you to come here . |
| 4 | ‘ I did n't tell you to come back , ’ he barked at Kaas in German . |
| 5 | ‘ 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 . |
| 6 | ‘ I thought she did n't want me to come . ’ |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | ‘ 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 . |
| 9 | ‘ I did n't want him to come for me . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | ‘ 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | ‘ That is precisely why I did n't want you to come to the hospital . |
| 14 | I did n't expect him to come . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ But you did n't expect me to come . ’ |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | I did n't expect you to come so soon . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ Oh — I did n't expect you to come round again . |
| 19 | Francis , hands thrust deep into his trouser pockets , said : ‘ I thought he seemed a bit queer at lunch but I did n't expect it to come to this … ’ |
| 20 | ‘ I did n't get you to come down here , Bella , so that I could escort you to bloody parties . |
| 21 | ‘ I did n't ask her to come here this morning . ’ |
| 22 | He wished them happiness , but he did n't ask them to come home . |
| 23 | ‘ I did n't ask you to come , or her , ’ said Philip . |
| 24 | And I did n't ask you to come waltzing into it . |
| 25 | ‘ I did n't ask you to come out with me , did I ? ’ |
| 26 | I did n't ask you to come and pry into my life — ’ |
| 27 | ‘ I did n't ask you to come here in the first place , and I certainly did n't ask for your help out here . |