Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] come " in BNC.
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| 1 | I went to Croke Park and I had not the slightest interest in Protestantism but I did come from a Fermanagh family where you did live cheek by jowl with republicanism so I had imbibed it undoubtedly and it resurfaced , the inherited knowledge of the heart of the controversy in Ulster . |
| 2 | When I did come to know Koestler I found him electrifying but not at all intimidating . |
| 3 | When I did come he would go out and leave me in , just me , the baby , and four walls . |
| 4 | ‘ Well , I did come early to check on Faye , ’ he admitted . |
| 5 | Abruptly she let go of the last protective remnants of self-deception , but , fearing questions she could n't answer without exposing the full extent of her vulnerability , she rushed on , ‘ I felt guilty to begin with , but I did come to terms with it eventually , and anyway , my parents had encouraged me to stay with radio even though it would take me away from them and they knew what was happening to Dad . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ Actually , hard as it may be for you to believe , I did come for a reason . ’ |
| 7 | And if I did come and sit face to face across the desk , it would have a discipline . |
| 8 | I did come away that er really was n't struck . |
| 9 | No , I did come . |
| 10 | But you did come out , so I may hope that you can be induced to vary your quiet days with |
| 11 | ‘ It would be so nice if you did come and live near us when you 're married , ’ said Jannie wistfully . |
| 12 | Er the , the money , the money that I money difference was n't great but the fact was er who you were thinking about er when you did come out . |
| 13 | Okay I that would have been okay in that particular case but you did come back to it as benefit , you say we have n't seen you for such a long time that was a not just look at your policies but to put a , a face to the name so I can become your point of reference |
| 14 | But you did come back and you had the , the figures to hand . |
| 15 | Erm I was , I , I thought that , when you covered all the policies you then went through and summarized all the needs and I thought you were n't going to go back and , and er explore further so what you did is you covered all the policies and then you summarized everything and then explored all the needs and s and at one point I thought that you were n't actually going to do that but you did come back and do it , you just did it in a different way . |
| 16 | Erm one , one of the statements that you did come out with when you , when you were saying about erm why you were there , you said about to make sure that your policy is performing how you wish it to which is as good a one as I did when I said you 're obviously satisfied with , with your Friends Provident contract cos we 're brilliant erm Martin asked the question about why has the , why has the bonus gone down and , and you overcame that objection er which was good and he , he was , he was satisfied with that . |
| 17 | She did come top , though she did not try and hoped she would n't . |
| 18 | My mother did n't go to the moon but she did come to my bedside . |
| 19 | And if she did come in she always made sure that she had somebody else with her . |
| 20 | As Mary re-iterated to the police , she 'd had a job to wake her up out of a dead sleep that night , and when she did come to she just could n't take in what had happened : she did n't seem able to speak for ages and she 'd had to help her into her clothes . |
| 21 | But when she did come back , with her own children , the railway line had been closed . |
| 22 | When she did come we were all excited , but we all got told to get off the concourse and hide ! |
| 23 | ‘ She did come to me in the first place . ’ |
| 24 | mother used to spend most of her time in the local when she did come and er |
| 25 | She did , she did come this morning , but er then had a message that she 'd gone home . |
| 26 | So he see he said she did come here . |
| 27 | So I mean , John was right , she did come to see me that time . |
| 28 | These are judges who accept ‘ no grovelling on the part of prisoners ’ , even those who play on having a relative in the RUC ( and we did come across a policeman who believed that his brother had been treated leniently in court as a result of this connection with the force ) . |
| 29 | If we did come to allow such authority , or privacy , to the machine enormous consequences would follow , for its blueprints and machine programs would no longer be a safe guide to its future behaviour . |
| 30 | Erm and it , it was us , I mean not only do we , I mean we develop her a a response , that means , we , we work with Councillor 's we work with Senior Officer 's in other departments and we look at the policy angles , like for example with , with that piece of legislation , when , when we first realised what the impact for that legislation was , it was gon na mean that we were ten million pound short in our housing money basically , that was , that was what it looked like on the surface and you think oh my god how you gon na make up for that short fall , that would mean an eleven pound a week rise in rent , that 's what it worked out as , so , well we ca n't do that , how , and then you have to look at the legislation and you say what are the loop holes here , and erm , and it involves contacting outside organisations and getting there opinion and finding out what other Council 's are doing and responding to things like this , and we did come up with a way , of , of reducing that deficit , but that 's the kind of thing we do . |