Example sentences of "[verb] come at [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mine do n't want to come at all , my dad said good god that sounds like a waste of time . |
| 2 | For daring to come at all , she was cut from the Kirov team . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ Or perhaps I should n't have come at all . |
| 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 | ... But no , for he had said her heart was badly damaged , death might have come at any time . |
| 9 | If you have a weak stomach you may wonder why you bothered to come at all . |
| 10 | It was silly to have come at all if she was going to feel so shaky and helpless . |
| 11 | 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 |
| 12 | Little knots of people stood about eyeing each other with an air of wondering why they had come at all . |
| 13 | 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 . |