Example sentences of "did 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 | 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 . |
| 11 | But I did not come close to any but my outward gestures . |
| 12 | ‘ 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 . |
| 13 | They did n't come here to be monsters , presumably . |
| 14 | I 'd never do anything that did n't come easily to me . |
| 15 | She could put it on , like a posh accent , but it did n't come naturally to her . |