Example sentences of "[adv] come at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are some people who obviously come at the weekend more to see whatever it is we 're showing . |
| 2 | A note duly came at the end of September , hurtful in its brevity , frustrating in its lack of information : — thank you for the money sister which is put to good use your son being in need of shoes and all manner of apparel since he grows apace . |
| 3 | The origins of this transformation may be traced back into the late 19th century but the upheaval finally came at the time of Vietnam , flower-power and the campus revolutions . |
| 4 | No two candidates will respond to questions in exactly the same way so you must keep a fair amount of flexibility in your approach — it would be wrong to stop a candidate from following up an interesting and potentially revealing answer simply because it is not coming at the designated point in your schedule . |
| 5 | London , of course , and our Amsterdam exhibition has been trading since the beginning of the year and the price increase is generally coming at the beginning of the season , which is more or less now for the parks , earlier for the exhibitions . |
| 6 | Uncontroversial and fairly routine questions — not always easy to spot — should normally come at the beginning , leaving personal and more intimate ones for later . |
| 7 | But now they do not come at the end of the list . |
| 8 | These reflections do not come at the end of the piece — Palomar then goes on to make analogies with human communication — but they do encapsulate its essential spirit and that of many other pieces in the book . |
| 9 | The rains do not come at the same time each year and yet the guinea fowl always seem to know when the wet season is about to begin . |
| 10 | There are , however , preliminary items and also at least two others that normally come at the end . |
| 11 | Unlike most catalogues today , the vegetables usually came at the front with similarly enticing but just as unbelievable pictures as we find in today 's catalogues . |
| 12 | Both conjunctions and disjuncts usually come at the beginning of English clauses ; it is natural for the speaker to place in initial position an element which relates what s/he is about to say to what has been said before ( conjunction ) or an element which expresses his/her own judgement on what is being said ( disjunct ) . |
| 13 | In life , the right man to love hardly ever comes at the right time for loving . |
| 14 | The writer discovered or was introduced to Robinson Crusoe too early , so that it appeared to be a tedious book ; Mervyn Peake 's Gormenghast trilogy appeared a little too late , so that he accepted it with a little less excitement than it deserved ; and Proust 's Remembrance of things past came at the right moment when he had the tenacity for the task . |
| 15 | Vomiting often comes at the close of a chill ; vomiting of bile between the chill and the heat . |
| 16 | erm The more recent developments in erm women 's fiction , feminist fiction , erm the lead has come there certainly from America so that not only do you have leading erm women novelists but you have leading women black novelists and black women novelists and this erm of course may very well come , and I hope it does , in this country , but it has n't come at the moment . |
| 17 | ‘ We only found out Peter was n't coming at the last minute . |
| 18 | As with all 205s , the balance and steering response of the XS do n't come at the expense of an uncompromising ride . |
| 19 | For a while , the working title of ‘ Homebrew ’ was ‘ Feminist Slag ’ , to signify that feminism need n't come at the cost of ‘ being able to let your sexuality really express itself ’ . |
| 20 | The same can not be said about languages in which the predicator frequently comes at the beginning of the clause and therefore represents an unmarked — or at least less marked — thematic choice . |
| 21 | Another sore point was de Gaulle 's fondness for theatricality and rhetoric , which sometimes came at the expense of substance . |