Example sentences of "[noun] come [adv] at the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Edward came in at the french window and stared blankly at his younger sister . |
| 2 | Professor Connor , in a fascinating paper on computers in classical studies , claims that computers came just at the wrong time , at a time when scholar 's interests were moving from textual studies to critical theory , women 's studies and the like . |
| 3 | But Anna did not talk to him , because Sarah came in at the same time . |
| 4 | Macrovision Inc , Mountain View , and Philips Electronics NV 's Philips Semiconductors came together at the National Association of Broadcasters trade show this week to announce that Philips ' new NTSC and PAL colour encoder chips will include Macrovision 's patented pay-per-view anti-copy system . |
| 5 | Lyn switched off the set as Stephen came in at the back door . |
| 6 | As you can see , though each of these poems ‘ simply ’ describes a moment that has something to do with the natural world , other thoughts and messages come through at the same time . |
| 7 | Even when set up correctly some units have their clip lights coming on at the slightest provocation , while the Alpha seems to have more headroom before it clips , which should therefore mean less chance of unwanted distortion . |
| 8 | Right , so we 've got Busy with an internal call coming through , and you 're busy and an external call comes through at the same time . |
| 9 | THE subject of minimum wages came up at The Northern/KPMG Peat Marwick Business Briefing when Sir Ian Wrigglesworth ( CBI , Lib-Dem , ex-Labour ) was the guest speaker . |
| 10 | The little plane came down at the old airport , south of the town . |
| 11 | Every September we have the small ad hoc Cabinet committee known as the ‘ Star Chamber ’ [ MISC 62 ] in which Lord Whitelaw sits down and tries to bang heads together , and then the Prime Minister comes in at the last minute and bangs heads together even more . |
| 12 | If it is obvious that US policy towards Indo-China could not be considered in isolation from its policy towards the rest of Asia , it is even more obvious that the integration of US policy for Vietnam came about at the same time as the disintegration of its policy towards China : the most traumatic episode in US power-war policies in Asia , at least until the outbreak of the Korean war . |