Example sentences of "[noun pl] do [not/n't] come " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sometimes , with the best of intentions , the words do not come out quite right . |
| 2 | Although Maidstone was now beginning to display the fact that he was far from sober — his walk was a little unsteady and one or two of his words did not come out exactly right — the visit to the hatshop passed off without any untoward incident . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | SPORTS cars do n't come any smarter than this . |
| 5 | SPORTS cars do n't come any smarter than this . |
| 6 | And handbag designers do n't come much younger , prettier or more stylish than Anya Hindmarch . |
| 7 | He said , ‘ Your couriers did n't come back . |
| 8 | Assume the parties do not come within Finance Act 1986 , Sched 20 , para 6(1) . |
| 9 | Unfortunately , good knives do n't come at bargain prices . |
| 10 | ‘ I would back myself to score 20 goals this season if I were to have three chances in every game , but those opportunities do not come so easy for me in Italy . |
| 11 | ‘ We find a lot of crockery and cutlery goes missing and trays do n't come back , ’ she says . |
| 12 | Declarations did not come in until 1889 , so that Stoddart 's innings was three years before , and that of Collins 10 years after . |
| 13 | However , the overwhelming majority of lay ( non-specialist ) visitors did not come for predominantly educational reasons . |
| 14 | Recent surveys in the Lake District have shown that the majority of visitors do not come for these ‘ tourist attractions ’ but rather for the fresh air and breathtaking scenery . |
| 15 | ‘ We 've unscrewed the casters , ’ said Jack , ‘ the feet do n't come off , they 're fixed ! ’ |
| 16 | Altogether it was a great evening but reliving our holiday experiences did not come cheap . |
| 17 | She learnt that these plates did not come up to the manufacturer 's high standards and would go back into the melting pot . |
| 18 | And because many illnesses and deaths in developing countries do not come to the attention of doctors , who are anyway ill-informed about the effects of pesticides , real casualty figures must be higher . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | When Denethor says that stewards do not come to be kings by the lapse of a few centuries in Gondor , but only ‘ in other places of less royalty ’ , the remark is true of Scotland , and of Britain — though not of Anglo-Saxon England , ruled from the legendary past of King Cerdic to 1065 by kings descended in paternal line from one ancestor . |
| 21 | The Odd Fellows has worked out average charges and the overall bills do not come cheap . |
| 22 | If men trained in the learned profession did not , perhaps , scale such heights in the later sixteenth century , at the same time the crossing of career lines did not come to a halt . |
| 23 | The choice between these two coevolutions does n't come about through advance planning . |
| 24 | The real costs did not come from doing work ( that is , being at sea ) but from not doing work ( that is , sitting idle in port ) . |
| 25 | Although he produced valuable results at St Andrews , his major contributions did not come until later , as half the time he spent there coincided with the First World War , when the laboratories were turned over to the production of pharmaceuticals and fine chemicals . |
| 26 | At an average £200 or so for installation , meters do n't come cheap , and it will take a few years of saving on bills to meet the initial cost . |
| 27 | HEROES do n't come much younger than little John Cootes . |
| 28 | Unhappily , such days do not come too often , for I live a long way from Ringwood and it is a very popular river in that area . |
| 29 | Guitars do n't come much more exclusive than this . |
| 30 | In certain regions the sclerites do not come into apposition by sutures and are thus , as it were , islands of cuticle surrounded by membrane . |