Example sentences of "do not come [adv] to " 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 | Unlike the others , sleep did not come easily to her before a job . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Command did not come easily to him , He dropped his eyes . |
| 5 | The game of persuasion did not come easily to the interrogator . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | She learnt that these plates did not come up to the manufacturer 's high standards and would go back into the melting pot . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | But I did not come close to any but my outward gestures . |
| 18 | And , as so often , I did not come back to bed . |
| 19 | ‘ I did not come back to international rugby just to be the grandad of the B side . |
| 20 | Hazel did not come down to London for the weekend . |
| 21 | ‘ 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 . |
| 22 | The only disappointment for the Sunderland fans was that the team did not come out to be saluted after their 1–0 victory as happened when the 1973 side also won through to Wembley at Hillsborough . |
| 23 | Shakespeare 's centrality has been achieved because there remains continued debate about the plays , these texts do not come down to us as ‘ dead on arrival ’ , to borrow a phrase from Stephen Greenblatt . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | The personal skills necessary to conclude negotiations successfully in Japan do not come naturally to the Westerner . |
| 26 | They did n't come here to be monsters , presumably . |
| 27 | I 'd never do anything that did n't come easily to me . |
| 28 | ‘ We did n't come up to expectations … ’ his eyes suddenly brightened . |
| 29 | She did n't come back to Low Birk Hatt . |
| 30 | She lived in Jesselton and did n't come back to school in England because her mother is a teacher and educated Anne at home in what seemed to me a rather rough and ready fashion . |