Example sentences of "came at [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Though the demand from industry and society at large was for better school education , the response came at first not from schools but from Youth Training Schemes for school-leavers , organized by the Manpower Services Commission . |
| 2 | But when we came at first there were these erm there were these er street street musicians you know . |
| 3 | Well , when they came at first they says , see the way they 've got there |
| 4 | So the war came at last , at exactly 6.35:24 pm on January 16 , 1991 , when Peter Jennings interrupted a canned piece to announce that explosions and flashes were breaking up the Baghdad night . |
| 5 | Discovery was inevitable and when it came at last there were reasons to rejoice , but not at the reunion with Christopher . |
| 6 | It came at last , a huge long-distance coach , with high steps in the doorway . |
| 7 | They turned through the narrow Kendal Dyke into a lovely wilderness of reeds and water , sailed from one to another of the posts that mark the channel , came to a signpost standing not on land but out in the middle of the Sounds , read ‘ to Horsey ’ on one side of it , reached away through Meadow Dyke , so narrow that they could easily have jumped ashore , and came at last to the open Mere . |
| 8 | We came at last to his office which was basically a roomette like my own : that is to say , it was a seven-by-four-foot space on one side of a central corridor , containing a washbasin , a folding table and two seats , one of which concealed what the timetable coyly called ‘ facilities ’ . |
| 9 | A. R. They came at last . |
| 10 | Another time , Swan flew through the night for what seemed like hours and hours until they came at last to a gigantic opening in the earth 's surface , a sort of huge gaping hole in the ground , and Swan glided slowly round and round above this massive crater and then right down into it . |
| 11 | They came at last , in the warm Sunday stillness , to the broad avenues of central Berlin . |
| 12 | It was sent to her home and came at last to her family . |
| 13 | The climb continued by Knarlton hoot to Hudson Quarry , where wild sage was growing thickly amongst the limestone and grass , until I came at last to the rougher pasture below Hazely . |
| 14 | She came at last , swathed in mink , ushered in by the perspiring PRO . |
| 15 | The first sign to Creggan that something to do with Minch might be happening came at last nearly four weeks later when the Men opened up her cage again . |
| 16 | Then the tears came at last , and she could n't say another word . |
| 17 | When he came at last , he saw it at once . |
| 18 | Outside , he headed for the bridge and there , halfway across , he came at last to a halt , with traffic rushing past , the river gleaming below and the city reaching away in an infinite complex parade of shining white and pearly grey with light snapping from windows and cars . |
| 19 | He came at last to a small , lean-to workshop where a girl , seated at a bench with her back to him , was decorating a pot placed on a turntable . |
| 20 | It came at last : ‘ Mr Glynn 's travelling companion was to be a Mrs Florence Tremayne of Nansallas Cottage , New Mill . ’ |
| 21 | They came at last to the great , bulky empty house , staring across to parklands through the inspired grouping of its trees . |
| 22 | So she kept to the woods , following the way Pedro had led , until she came at last to the clearing at the head of the ride . |
| 23 | We came at last to a clearing brought about by a massive outcrop of rock . |
| 24 | despite the fact that the invasion came at last on Friday morning . |