Example sentences of "come at [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Little knots of people stood about eyeing each other with an air of wondering why they had come at all . |
| 2 | He could have continued placidly with the life he had chosen , and would have excelled ; but telegrams of a peremptory nature , saying his mother 's illness had taken a turn for the worse and he must come , kept arriving from Colonel Carteret , and Paul had to leave his work , abandon lectures , and make the weary journey to London time and again , only to find Sophia weak but resigned , and reproachful for his having come at all . |
| 3 | As Gandalf points out , all Sauron and Saruman and the orcs have done between them is ‘ bring Pippin and Merry with marvellous speed , and in the nick of time , to Fangorn , where otherwise they would never have come at all ! ’ — and so , one might say , though it is beyond Gandalf 's knowledge at the time , to rouse the Ents , overthrow Saruman , save Rohan , and free Théoden to make his decisive intervention at Minas Tirith . |
| 4 | ‘ Or perhaps I should n't have come at all . |
| 5 | It was silly to have come at all if she was going to feel so shaky and helpless . |
| 6 | ‘ We should not have come at all . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ You mean if he had not to come to her for money , he would not have come at all ? ’ |
| 8 | Or not come at all . |
| 9 | The thing that worries some people is that as it 's come at this particular time that some of the things that might have been done five years ago by Local Education Authorities to improve their whole education for children with special needs may now , either through other competing financial pressures , or through inertia or whatever , the whole spirit of Warnock could be lost , and I think it 's a thing that , you know , one will have to keep a careful eye on . |
| 10 | ... But no , for he had said her heart was badly damaged , death might have come at any time . |
| 11 | " It 's good of you to come at such short notice , very good , " said Willis . |
| 12 | It was good of you to come at such short notice and lucky for me that you had no date for this evening , as you so easily might have done . ’ |
| 13 | If you have a weak stomach you may wonder why you bothered to come at all . |
| 14 | English family relationships are said to be less strong than those of Asians , but most English people would be deeply shocked if their grandmother or grandfather , coming to visit them , or their young brother or sister , was held in detention by people with quasi-police powers , accused of lying and then sent back ; or if their husband or wife , coming to join them after a long separation , was further delayed for years and then told that they were not the people they claimed to be and hence had no right to come at all . |
| 15 | Whenever Annunciata came to fetch the child she was firm : he must go at once or otherwise his mother would be displeased and might not allow him to come at all . |
| 16 | For daring to come at all , she was cut from the Kirov team . |
| 17 | I wondered if this had been the right place to come at all . |
| 18 | For some , in fact , this meeting may be the only evening out they have during the month ; and it is often the encouragement and moral support they get from the group that gives them the resolve to come at all . |
| 19 | The best time to see the Lakes he felt was not necessarily high summer , and he recommended people to come at all times of the year so that they might appreciate the great torrents of water after rain and misty light on cloudy days . |
| 20 | It would have come , if it was to come at all , only if a well co-ordinated , centrally directed campaign of strikes , carried out by an immensely disciplined and united workforce , and backed by enough money to support the strikers for as long as necessary , could have been made to prevail against the resolute and more readily co-ordinated opposition of masters who stood to lose everything if the strikers won . |
| 21 | The revolution would have come , if it was to come at all , only if the demand for industrial democracy through the agency of Industrial Co-operation , could have prompted such a comprehensive tide of sympathetic opinion as had carried parliamentary reform over the barriers of stubborn opposition . |
| 22 | No : the revolution would have come , if it was to come at all , only if the resources available to the forces for change , the unions , had been enough to enable them to seize and hold the means of production , and if they had had the will to employ those resources ; not as a thief in the night but in a scene of anarchy and dreadful confusion of which the French Revolution would have given but a faint anticipation . |
| 23 | No there will be Wednesdays now that I wo n't be able to come at all . |
| 24 | Mm , mm , cos of King 's Cross , had to come at all it 's awful and one time you just went straight on the escalator and now you 've got to go |
| 25 | Mine do n't want to come at all , my dad said good god that sounds like a waste of time . |
| 26 | For all her encouragement to them to come at any time to her house , Rose herself was wary of calling at Great Meadow . |
| 27 | It is very , very unfortunate to come at this time . ’ |
| 28 | as if to increase my terror , there came at that instant a pause in the electric war overhead . |
| 29 | If he came at all . |
| 30 | The sun came late in December if it came at all . |