Example sentences of "do [adv] come [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | High academic success did not come immediately to Roberts — he went as an undergraduate to the University of California at Los Angeles ( UCLA ) rather than the prestigious Cal-Tech , because his high school grades were too low for the latter . |
| 2 | The rioters , who held the streets of London for three days after Wilkes ' election , although they did not come exclusively from the working classes , were still overwhelmingly so composed . |
| 3 | One day he did not come downstairs for supper . |
| 4 | Most of those who saw the General in the weeks after his resignation did not come away with the impression that he was on the edge of his seat waiting to be asked back . |
| 5 | He did not come forward on their behalf . |
| 6 | Scott tried to arrange a counter address to Palmerston and obtained eighteen or nineteen names , but ‘ the Gothic architects did not come forward in sufficient force to make it worth while ’ . |
| 7 | Unlike the others , sleep did not come easily to her before a job . |
| 8 | Horse riding did not come easily to him , and he had to bathe in Epsom salts every night to soothe his acting legs and behind . |
| 9 | Command did not come easily to him , He dropped his eyes . |
| 10 | The game of persuasion did not come easily to the interrogator . |
| 11 | He considered himself to be his own master , and deference to this aristocratic head of Russian Intelligence , Count Zhinsky , did not come easily to him . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Even so , words did not come easily to either of us ; for the first time we both realized how very little we knew about each other . |
| 15 | Two honest critics can be given as exceptions , the first a Japanese who recorded a negative reaction to a picture which did not come up to his standards of meaningful symbolism . |
| 16 | He had no track record himself in combat and the men he was to lead in battle were a pretty tough crowd , all of them individualists and likely to be highly critical of any officer who did not come up to their own standards . |
| 17 | But the profits in which he shared during 1840–44 did not come up to expectations , and after the disappointment of the low profits on A Christmas Carol , published on commission , he broke temporarily with Chapman & Hall , and turned to their printers , Bradbury & Evans , as his new publishers . |
| 18 | She learnt that these plates did not come up to the manufacturer 's high standards and would go back into the melting pot . |
| 19 | The EEC declared that the 1975 Sex Discrimination Act ( which incorporated the 1970 Equal Pay Act ) did not come up to its standards , and that the British government had to make it stronger . |
| 20 | ‘ The players need to feel confident and secure in their positions and we are counting on those players who did not come up to expectation against Scotland , to make up for it against Ireland . ’ |
| 21 | The difficult search for a replacement for Bean after his retirement did not come up with a suitable candidate ( see The Art Newspaper No.17 , April 1992 , p.5 ) . |
| 22 | There were , however , some cases in which the model did not come up with a valid parse , that is , a pattern that represents complete coverage of the input by a set of nonoverlapping words . |
| 23 | Darlington has 131 of the crime combatting schemes and some volunteers feared they could fold if the council did not come up with its share of the funding Durham County Council provides the other half . |
| 24 | The first 15 overs yielded only 30 and the 100 did not come up until the 35th over . |
| 25 | As with so many of Stockman 's ambitions , this one did not come close to full realization ; nevertheless , in the early months of Reagan 's first term , the legislature was repeatedly upstaged and out-manoeuvred by the White House . |
| 26 | But I did not come close to any but my outward gestures . |
| 27 | After a letter of protest from the Corporation , the buses were transferred to Twickenham Garage to work on routes which did not come anywhere near Croydon . |
| 28 | The Board claimed that a ballot on industrial action had not been validly conducted but the High Court judge said the evidence for this ‘ did not come anywhere near justifying injunctive relief ’ . |
| 29 | I thought I should go mad if my brother did not come home at the appointed hour , for I longed to thrust it into his hands . |
| 30 | Norm was very busy these days , and often did not come home for dinner . |