Example sentences of "the [noun] [verb] [adv] come " in BNC.
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| 1 | All religions show how difficult the path is to embodying their high moral ideals — they acknowledge a high failure rate , the majority do not come anywhere near achieving what they should , and the more saintly or holy within the religions see this the most clearly . |
| 2 | The third bokra was a Friday , the Muslim holy day , when the labourers did not come at all . |
| 3 | The case did not come to trial until 1963 . |
| 4 | The case did n't come up and by two in the afternoon , they said it would probably be tomorrow . |
| 5 | An attack to the utmost — offensive a l'outrance — was to be made into Lorraine by the First and Second armies , while the Third and Fifth armies , on their left , would take the offensive north of Metz or , if the Germans did indeed come down through Belgium , strike them in flank . |
| 6 | and still the Helmores did n't come . |
| 7 | Yeah , well that 's why a switch , a switch on mine , so oh no the cable did n't come |
| 8 | ‘ If only the Russians do n't come here , we could bear everything else ’ , was a commonly heard sentiment . |
| 9 | Well , regarding this business of Buffy and the apple , you know — the pig does n't come into it until the end . |
| 10 | I only hope the snow does n't come till after Christmas , though . |
| 11 | ‘ The car did n't come to the house . ’ |
| 12 | er Again it 's difficult to say , the information has been leaking out from the talks , er it does n't look as though a pay formula is being included but Roger Pulne , er even on the onset of this dispute guaranteed the members er that any deal that was struck with management would include a pay formula and er if the deal does n't come out with a pay formula after the ballot as I say , I think people are going to be very disappointed and let-down by our union negotiators . |
| 13 | Pity the rest of the club did n't come … |
| 14 | Spemann and Mangold 's discovery of the organizer did not come as a surprise to Spemann , nor did it involve any element of luck . |
| 15 | Assume the parties do not come within Finance Act 1986 , Sched 20 , para 6(1) . |
| 16 | Sometimes , with the best of intentions , the words do not come out quite right . |
| 17 | The boat did n't come at any scheduled time . |
| 18 | When poor Col. Griffin was laughed at for suggesting that Baptists establish a University in England , the laughter did not come from the descendants of Matthew Arnold who saw them as psalm-singing greengrocers , but from his fellow Baptists . |
| 19 | Besides , the Zionist fever was gripping Jewry everywhere , and even if the dream did not come true for them — well , their regular donations would redeem some small plot in the Holy Land which could provide a home for other less fortunate brethren . |
| 20 | He would have been quite happy to have been employed as a production manager an or as an assistant director of which he was first class but the work did not come his way . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | ‘ We 've unscrewed the casters , ’ said Jack , ‘ the feet do n't come off , they 're fixed ! ’ |
| 23 | He told a court in Seoul , South Korea : ‘ I 'm sorry the rapture did not come , but it will one day . ’ |
| 24 | Obligatory use of Annual Percentage Rate was introduced in 1980 , but the main regulations issued under the Act did not come into force until May 1985 . |
| 25 | But the boy did n't come . |
| 26 | But the question did n't come . |
| 27 | The lady did n't come alone , and I 'm not sure whether we ought to be doing anything about it . |
| 28 | In certain regions the sclerites do not come into apposition by sutures and are thus , as it were , islands of cuticle surrounded by membrane . |
| 29 | Where a summons or other originating process has been served on a defendant by post or insertion in his letter-box under Ord 7 , 4 10(1) ( b ) or 4(a) or r 13(1) ( b ) or ( 4 ) and after judgment has been given or entered it appears to the court that the process did not come to the knowledge of the defendant in time , the court may of its own motion set aside the judgment and may give any direction or make any such order as the court may think just . |
| 30 | The conscience collective ‘ would necessarily lose its energy , if an emotional reaction of the community did not come to compensate its loss , and it would result in a breakdown of social solidarity ’ ( Durkheim , 1960 : 109 ) . |