Example sentences of "come to court " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The Face never wanted this case to come to court and every effort was made to settle the dispute , without success . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ The Face never wanted this case to come to court and every effort was made to settle the dispute , without success . ’ |
| 3 | However , the significant fact was that this incident took five years to come to court . |
| 4 | The case could now take two years to come to court . |
| 5 | The charge for being in unlawful possession of the Thompson was the first to come to court . |
| 6 | He said he was quite prepared to come to court with the film , ’ the judge said . |
| 7 | Very few witnesses had been found who were prepared to come to court to repeat their statements in the flesh , but some did and their words were translated first into English and then into German , causing some confusion as to the precise meaning of what they had actually said . |
| 8 | If a witness is reluctant to come to court you need to consider whether their enforced presence will be counterproductive , but most witnesses will accept the situation in the end and give their evidence in good faith . |
| 9 | That case is not expected to come to court for a few months and Dairy Crest wanted to stop him trading in the meantime . |
| 10 | That challenge is likely to take months to come to court . |
| 11 | He 'd been staying at a bail hostel in Gloucester whilst waiting for the case to come to court . |
| 12 | The two men argued that 's it 's an abuse of the legal process for the case to come to court 24 years after they allegedly helped the soviet double agent escape from Wormwood Scrubs , but Mr Randall has mixed feelings about their victory . |
| 13 | Dusan Zivkovic , aged 65 , a Yugoslav Serb who was handed to the communists by the British but managed to escape , said he had come to court to find the culprits and ‘ nail the bastards ’ who had sent his fellow countrymen to their deaths . |
| 14 | For most of the time the plaintiffs seemed to miss out on the need to prove their reliance on the accounts and had they addressed this early enough , the case might never have come to court . |
| 15 | Maxwell still thinks he can run this himself , pay up and leave with his daughter rather than keep his money and have the case come to court so that his affairs might have to be examined — that could cost him more than the ransom . |
| 16 | After a lot of pestering I was allowed to speak to two friends who had come to court with me , and I was appalled by having to speak to them through a glass and metal grille thing . |
| 17 | Relatively few cases had come to court , and those that had , the court had tended to take a restrictive interpretation of the crucial words . |
| 18 | The legislature has never had occasion to speak on this matter , and the issue has never come to court . |
| 19 | He denied allegations by barrister Thomas Teague , for Norman Roberts , that he had come to court to tell lies against the Roberts family . |
| 20 | One civil servant , at least , managed to escape the net when Clive Ponting , a Ministry of Defence official who had leaked documents about apparent ministerial lies on the sinking of the Belgrano during the Falklands War , was acquitted by a jury when the case came to court . |
| 21 | As a consequence the PFA continued to support George Eastham 's legal battle and it was not until 1964 that the case came to court and Sir Justice Wilberforce established the players ' legal right to the second freedom that had already been negotiated in 1961 . |
| 22 | LAST week , a case came to court in which a mentally unstable man was convicted of stabbing three policewomen and one policeman in a shopping centre . |
| 23 | Following a prolonged correspondence , SAVE issued a writ which came to court . |
| 24 | When cases came to court , the police often dropped charges in return for binding-over orders , issued under an even more ancient statute , the Justices of the Peace Act 1361 . |
| 25 | If the matter ever came to court , the judge would estimate the amount that you would have earned , in the light of the evidence before him concerning the nature of your job . |
| 26 | But the case never came to court . |
| 27 | ‘ The Comyns hardly came to court and though Bruce was close to Alexander , the late King never bothered to consider their claims to his throne . |
| 28 | The mesne process allowed a creditor to have his debtor arrested and detained before the case came to court and judgement was made on it . |
| 29 | When the case came to court , he did n't attend , leaving his lawyers to make a dramatic plea to the jury . |
| 30 | The case came to court 21 months later . |