Example sentences of "[noun] came [adv] at [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Still they waited , as the Scots came on at a canter .
2 A moment 's thought told him that this system worked only because two-thirds of the expected total of a Yeo Davis partnership came out at an amount well in excess of his salary , or that of any public servant of his age .
3 Fierce repression failed to eliminate the growing strength of the Social Democrats , and in 1887 , after decades of faction fighting , the groups came together at the Hainfeld Congress to form a single multinational party under the foremost Social Democrat , Victor Adler .
4 The goal though , was against the run of play and sure enough , Rovers came back at the start of the second half with an equaliser from Kenny Irons .
5 In the morning the sun came in at the window and woke me .
6 When the tax came in at the beginning of 1863 , vodka became cheaper and more readily available , state revenues held up , and the former monopolists of the retail trade began to invest their accumulated capital in railways , banks and mines .
7 The warning occurred after Puddephat 's name came up at the inquest into the death of an attractive flame-haired student , Melanie Gandell .
8 In the main gatehouse tower on the first stack , Moray was asking of the guard-captain whether the Countess was at home when the door from the first of the bridge-corridors was flung open and a young woman came in at the run , hair blown , laughing-eyed , skirts kilted up the better to run , fine bosom tumultuous — as unusual a Countess of Dunbar and March as was the castle of which she was chatelaine .
9 Robert Asshe came home at the end of the evening performance , traces of grease-paint still on his face .
10 Deciding that his lead was comfortable enough to make a precautionary stop , Senna came in at the end of lap 48 .
11 Its end came only at the end of the century as a result of the Elementary Education ( Blind and Deaf Children ) Act which became law in 1903 .
12 The timeliness of the Minor award in these terms was noted by the head of history : The project came along at the time when we were thinking about cross-curricular developments anyway , and the school had been concerned about the particular pattern of study skills and how they could be extended and coordinated .
13 The blade came down at an angle on my first finger , but chopped straight through the rest .
14 The singer later needed his prop when the rains came down at the band 's sell-out ‘ Finstock ’ gig .
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