Example sentences of "did [adv] come [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Filmer did eventually come down , but with Daffodil . |
| 2 | Mr Templeton of the STA bluntly stated that " either the men or the women must cease to exist as comps " , 76 while Mrs Pankhurst , speaking in North Berwick , remarked that " the women were between the devil and the deep sea " .77 But that unity did eventually come about . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | As always when she sang this song her eyes were moist , and when she had finished the applause did not come immediately , but there was that magic moment of silence that sometimes links a performer and an audience . |
| 5 | Mrs Frizzell had carefully cultivated her , too , but she let it pass , while Margaret complained that all four children had the measles and that she was going to have to leave them alone if the babysitter did not come soon ; she was not going to miss the dance at the Pinetree Club for worlds , and was dear Donna coming ? |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | One day he did not come downstairs for supper . |
| 8 | Marriage would come or it would not and if it did not come sooner it would come later or she would be unmarried and what stigma was there in that ? |
| 9 | For two days Mr Seeders did not come again , and in that time Tildy was a different woman . |
| 10 | They did not come again . |
| 11 | But his mother did not come through so well . |
| 12 | Basil Rocke was the elder brother of Niel Rocke and Colin Rocke , both of whom were boys at school , although he himself did not come here . |
| 13 | ‘ I did not come here to wrangle with you . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ I did not come here to rake up old scores . ’ |
| 15 | Erm Bradford and Leeds have er adopted a similar approach in their representations to er yourselves and certainly er I did not come here to take a er a part in the debate over specific figures . |
| 16 | ‘ However , I did not come here to quarrel with you , Larua . |
| 17 | Only two or three post-war British Prime Ministers did not come here , ’ she added . |
| 18 | Batts did not come on . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 ’ . |
| 21 | He did not come forward on their behalf . |
| 22 | Unlike the others , sleep did not come easily to her before a job . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | The decision to grant permission did not come easily : the meeting lasted four and a half hours . |
| 25 | Effort and application were not needed in the first instance and did not come easily when the need arose . |
| 26 | Command did not come easily to him , He dropped his eyes . |
| 27 | The game of persuasion did not come easily to the interrogator . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |