Example sentences of "came at [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She came at things from an angle ; she made connections . |
| 2 | Dr Wyn came at lunchtime while Lydia was eating pheasant leg and wondering whether the goodness inherent in a broth made from pheasant carcase was sufficient to justify sneaking it , disguised as soupe bonne femme , on to the supper tray of an ailing vegetarian , and what her real motives were . |
| 3 | Moin , nightwatchman , was beaten for pace on the pull-shot , but no declaration came at lunch ( 480 for 5 ) , nor after a rain interruption during which 12 overs were lost , it being believed that the runs were best scored in the first innings , and England would probably have been offered the light soon after their innings commenced . |
| 4 | But she came at lunch time . |
| 5 | When he came at week-ends he played with them vigorously , until they screamed and wept with over-excitement . |
| 6 | BIRKENHEAD ST MARY 'S increased their lead at the head of the Bromborough Paints Merseyside Competition table but most excitement came at Ainsdale who tied with Rainhill . |
| 7 | Although much of their classicising work in bronze produced after 1933 was liked and acquired by the regime , even these far from rebellious artists came at times under suspicion of being ‘ degenerate ’ . |
| 8 | Action came at price rise time in January , when Ford upgraded all LX Escort/Orion equipment and introduced a new L model — in effect an LX at the old price . |
| 9 | A total of seven points out of eight were lost to the Tayside club last season and Aberdeen 's only point from United this term came at Tannadice in December after they had held , and then surrendered , a two-goal lead . |
| 10 | He came at dusk , as soon as he dared , when everyone was gone . |
| 11 | The encounter came at dusk . |
| 12 | Dave 's first major success with Fernandez came at Fulford in 1975 when the Argentinian clinched the Benson and Hedges International . |
| 13 | The only win came at Liverpool . |
| 14 | If you came at night , like a broken king , |
| 15 | Where he had been a child , when the fox came at night around the barricaded chicken houses then the old bugger always scented the chicken house sides , left his stirik , boasted that he had been there . |
| 16 | It often came at night as I subconsciously relived the tensions of the previous evening 's crises . |
| 17 | ‘ But they came at night . |
| 18 | A man she had never seen before or since came at night . |
| 19 | ‘ From Armidel , ’ writes Johnson , ‘ we came at night to Coriatachan , a house very pleasantly situated between two brooks , with one of the highest hills of the island behind it . ’ |
| 20 | yes that was at quarter past eight Saturday morning and at ten to eight my aunty came at night and went fucking mad she said I want a dressing and I want it now , twelve hours ago I asked for that dressing and were n't done then came |
| 21 | ‘ Like when the time came at school to plan his future after he left . |
| 22 | Pressure generally came at moments of crisis , such as Suez in 1956 or the Irish conflict in the 1970s and 1980s , and tended to focus on particular programmes . |
| 23 | This proved to be a serious mis-calculation when the opportunity came at Barnsley Park in 1961 , which also will have to be told elsewhere . |
| 24 | Further theological and pastoral training came at St Augustine 's Missionary College , Canterbury , where Arthur Knight was Warden , after being invalided home from Burma , where he had been Bishop of Rangoon from 1902 to 1910 . |
| 25 | Apart from a few lesser results , the high point came at Fuji in Japan — the race that saw James Hunt crowned champion when Niki Lauda , his nearest rival , still recovering from his terrible and incendiary accident at the Nürburgring , withdrew from the race on the second lap because , as Niki said , ‘ only a fool would race in these conditions ’ — when Mario was on pole and won the race magisterially . |
| 26 | Interference came at dinner that night . |
| 27 | They all came at Christmas . |
| 28 | The query , seemingly innocuous , came at Northallerton community centre midway through a pre-inquiry meeting about plans for a grid of electricity pylons stretching from Teesside to York . |
| 29 | Eric Wood 's stark appraisal of the pace of reform programmes came at York , where he became president of the 2,000-member National Association of Educational Inspectors , Advisers and Consultants . |
| 30 | The closest score of the week came at Harwood and Jackson where Durham University moved closer off the bottom spot somewhat easier than the 58–52 final score suggests . |