Example sentences of "come at [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | " It must have come at night , " said Bigwig . |
| 2 | The toilet was er at the back of what we used to call the brew house it was n't a kitchen it was a brew house , and er the , the toilet was at the back of the brew house adjacent to the old ash pit , which was an ash pit in those days it was filled up and when it was filled , they used to come at night and empty the ash pit wheel up the entry it might be there for three or four months and you got flies , bluebottles all sorts in the hot weather you know , I could n't try my shoes on sometimes , but er it was a bit , well I suppose in those days they used to take it for granted , it was a bit primitive it was n't the best five houses in the area , but er |
| 3 | Dr Wyn came at lunchtime while Lydia was eating pheasant leg and wondering whether the goodness inherent in a broth made from pheasant carcase was sufficient to justify sneaking it , disguised as soupe bonne femme , on to the supper tray of an ailing vegetarian , and what her real motives were . |
| 4 | Moin , nightwatchman , was beaten for pace on the pull-shot , but no declaration came at lunch ( 480 for 5 ) , nor after a rain interruption during which 12 overs were lost , it being believed that the runs were best scored in the first innings , and England would probably have been offered the light soon after their innings commenced . |
| 5 | But she came at lunch time . |
| 6 | Action came at price rise time in January , when Ford upgraded all LX Escort/Orion equipment and introduced a new L model — in effect an LX at the old price . |
| 7 | He came at dusk , as soon as he dared , when everyone was gone . |
| 8 | The encounter came at dusk . |
| 9 | If you came at night , like a broken king , |
| 10 | Where he had been a child , when the fox came at night around the barricaded chicken houses then the old bugger always scented the chicken house sides , left his stirik , boasted that he had been there . |
| 11 | It often came at night as I subconsciously relived the tensions of the previous evening 's crises . |
| 12 | ‘ But they came at night . |
| 13 | A man she had never seen before or since came at night . |
| 14 | ‘ From Armidel , ’ writes Johnson , ‘ we came at night to Coriatachan , a house very pleasantly situated between two brooks , with one of the highest hills of the island behind it . ’ |
| 15 | yes that was at quarter past eight Saturday morning and at ten to eight my aunty came at night and went fucking mad she said I want a dressing and I want it now , twelve hours ago I asked for that dressing and were n't done then came |
| 16 | ‘ Like when the time came at school to plan his future after he left . |
| 17 | Interference came at dinner that night . |
| 18 | They all came at Christmas . |
| 19 | And laid them : thus he came at length |
| 20 | I 've spoken to the guy and he 's , said the architect was coming at lunchtime |
| 21 | They 're coming at Easter . |
| 22 | I remember one first night we stopped there , buses were coming at crack of dawn , |
| 23 | The news that Esau is coming at speed , and with a force , strikes terror into Jacob . |
| 24 | A call for lunch could come at noon . |
| 25 | He did not come in the dawning , he did not come at noon ; And out of the tawny sunset , before the rise o " the moon , when the road was a gypsy 's ribbon , looping the purple moor , A red-coat troop came marching |
| 26 | He did not come at noon . |
| 27 | They do n't usually come at Christmas now but she 's a real heart of gold and worries about me . |
| 28 | The unions accused Timex of having engineered the strike and said they would continue to demonstrate outside the plant until the bitter end , which will come at Christmas . |
| 29 | It was as expensive as it looks , but then , Alaa bolero tops do not come at bargain basement prices and in any case who could resist the temptation to pirouette up stairs like this ? |
| 30 | Unfortunately , good knives do n't come at bargain prices . |