Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] come [adv prt] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Good ’ work has to be seen as More than crime-fighting : ‘ Like , this is the sort of job that you come off at the end of the night and say to yourself ‘ What did I do ? ’ |
| 2 | Kingsley Amis , who wrote an adventure for Bond as well as creating Jim Dixon , reflects aptly on the reasons for his : ‘ What happened was that we came in at the tail end of the literary tradition to the effect that no decent girl enjoys sex — only tarts were supposed to do that . |
| 3 | Taskopruzade 's statement that he came back at the request of a repentant sultan is , of course , highly doubtful in view of the fact that his departure and return seem certain to have occurred in the reigns of different sultans . |
| 4 | My wife is a business woman with two shops and I came out at the height of the rag trade jamborees . |
| 5 | ( See Hall v Marians 19 TC 582 , Wild v King Smith 24 TC 86 , IRC v Gordon 33 TC 226 cf Lord Radcliffe in Thompson v Moyse 39 TC 29 at 337 ; it is not felt that Harmel v Wright 49 TC 149 at 159 alters the position because if one is " keeping one 's eye " ( p157E ) on the income and benefit it does not find its way to the United Kingdom ( it is hardly the case that the income and benefit " come in at one end of a conduit pipe and pass through certain traceable pipes until they come out at the other end to the taxpayer ( in the United Kingdom " ) ) . ) |
| 6 | down and there 's a path goes along and it comes , it goes under the road bridge and it comes out at the foot bridge and it runs next to it |
| 7 | ‘ He was in Singapore last week , but he came back at the weekend , I know , ’ she observed innocently , hating herself for needing to know so badly . |
| 8 | ‘ But he comes out at the right time and he stays on his line at the right time . |
| 9 | Erm there 's a shop erm that 's right up when you come out at the library th on the er , pelican crossing |
| 10 | He left Helen and went to have a bath and in the cold steamy bathroom there came to him this vision of a distant unreal Helen looking — well , radiant was the unexpected word that came to mind — looking not her usual self at all in some frock that glowed and billowed and rustled as she came in at the front door late , pink-cheeked , a touch dishevelled and greeted by the stone wall of Dorothy 's disapproval . |
| 11 | Well we got to and there 's three weeks well when we came up at the beginning of May there was a notice on the main main twenty one which said |
| 12 | Normally use the bypass when we come out at the |
| 13 | It was a relief that he did not try to speak , and when they came out at the landscaped clearing with its wooden bench seat overlooking the water she had readied herself to speak first . |
| 14 | ‘ I see , ’ said Doyle softly as they came out at the bottom of the stairs . |
| 15 | Never mind that this is very seldom what happens when a bullet strikes a forehead and especially when it comes out at the back of the head . |
| 16 | He 'd been sitting apparently fascinated by my World Religions class , and when he came up at the end I was sure he wanted to ask a question about Zoroastrianism or Thuggee , or whatever damned thing I 'd been going on about . |