Example sentences of "do [adv] come [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He did not come to her bed that night , nor for many nights after . |
| 2 | Reconquest would take time , in particular if diplomacy did not come to their help . |
| 3 | ( 4 ) The limiting words ‘ in his capacity as an officer or servant of the Crown ’ leave the court free to order a witness to give evidence notwithstanding that at the relevant time he was an officer or servant of the Crown , if the matters in respect of which he is to give evidence did not come to his notice in that capacity , for example , the civil servant who , when on holiday or at home , happens to witness a road traffic accident . |
| 4 | It did not come to his mind to murder any of them ; it was not his way , or the way he had been raised , to take life in cold blood , without a formal challenge or warning , without the necessary ritual preparation for combat and maybe death . |
| 5 | On this occasion they did not come to us and say right we want to negotiate , although several times we went to them and said please , here 's our budget , you know , our budget is now ready , we want to negotiate . |
| 6 | For when I was hungry you gave me nothing to eat , when thirsty nothing to drink ; when I was a stranger you gave me no home , when naked you did not clothe me ; when I was ill and in prison you did not come to my help . ’ |
| 7 | Carey addressed the wealthy directly , quoting Jesus ' parable about the sorting of the goats ( the wealthy ) from the sheep ( the poor ) in St Matthew 's gospel : ‘ The curse is upon you … for when I was hungry you gave me nothing to eat , when thirsty nothing to drink ; when I was a stranger you gave me no home , when naked you did not clothe me ; when I was ill and in prison you did not come to my help . ’ |
| 8 | In all his years of teaching , Alexander did not come across anyone that was not afflicted by the same problem . |
| 9 | Yet these and other highly original mathematical developments did not come into their own until the new revolutionary age of physics which began at the end of the century . |
| 10 | A man looking classically like a detective passed down the corridor but did not come into our carriage . |
| 11 | Jenny did not come into his calculations . |
| 12 | National interest did not come into it at all . |
| 13 | His position did not come into it . |
| 14 | If the initiative did not come from their mother it is hard to see either Richard , at fifteen , or Geoffrey , at fourteen , being persuaded to rebel by a man behind the scenes . |
| 15 | Mr. Cooper , the chairman of the dock company and the ports authority , gave evidence before me and stated unequivocally that it did not come from him , nor to his knowledge from any of his subordinates . |
| 16 | And material riches do not come into it . |
| 17 | ‘ Little crime ’ calls , what the Metropolitan Police call ‘ beat crime ’ ( Policy Studies Institute 1983b : 35 ) , include a host of infringements and public nuisances , many of which do not come within what the section police define as ‘ real , police work , although some none the less have an intrinsic appeal to ordinary policemen and women . |
| 18 | Betty did n't come without them any more for fear of losing her job , but she was n't blind or daft . |
| 19 | She did n't come with me . |
| 20 | she did n't come with us , she , er , we lost her then , we lost her I do n't know where she 's going |
| 21 | But she did n't come with anyone . |
| 22 | I did n't come of her . |
| 23 | Mary Vorse pinpointed ‘ the time when old age finally claimed me ’ as the ‘ moment when my two boys were more thoughtful of me , when they did n't come to me any more with their perplexities . ’ |
| 24 | But the nuts did n't come to her house . |
| 25 | Did n't come to her funeral ? |
| 26 | Which did n't come to everybody of course . |
| 27 | So they park that up on the pavement outside our wall did n't come to our gate but , and then did n't it obstruct Alan 's because they had it on the pavement , so anybody going down the pavement |
| 28 | But when she made a last appeal , and told him , though feeling it was not quite true , that Martha had asked him to bring her father back , and then , very unwisely , referred again to Mrs Hodge , and the house , and the single bed , and even the temple bells , and asked him why he did n't come to his senses and whether he did n't think he 'd be happier living with a woman , whether she was on a boat or not , he turned on her , upsetting the bowl of water in front of the gas fire , and shouted : |
| 29 | Oh I suppose he 's invested it wrongly or whatever I do n't know I I can understand why they did n't come to his rescue , you know , I mean , they 've got their livelihood to think about and he was a bachelor where as they 've got children , or and he 's brothers and they 're |
| 30 | Defendant : It did n't come to my mind . |