Example sentences of "[noun pl] came [adv prt] at " in BNC.

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1 Still they waited , as the Scots came on at a canter .
2 On Wednesday they had a quiet morning in the centre until just before lunch when two emergencies came in at virtually the same time .
3 Clients came in at 45p plus , only to see the share price drop rapidly to 18p , although it did later recover .
4 The goal though , was against the run of play and sure enough , Rovers came back at the start of the second half with an equaliser from Kenny Irons .
5 Patterned Fair Isle yoke pullovers came in at this time , then polo necks .
6 Lardner 's volumes were not quite an encyclopedia , since each one could stand on its own : volumes came out at intervals , and buyers do not seem to have been made to subscribe to the whole set .
7 The generator revved up and down , providing power to the automatic launcher ; it had some sort of randomly set variation built into where it was aiming because the clays came out at a different angle and heading each time .
8 When four Germans and their rifles came up at once he knew that he was never going to find out .
9 The subsidiary 's profits came out at 80% of 1991 figures and were equivalent to $2.2m , while turnover fell 11.7% to $168.1m .
10 Much more commercial calculation was required to justify the cost of these pictures : The Man Who Worked Miracles came in at £133,000 ; Things to Come at £241,000 .
11 His hands came down at either side of her , trapping her against the wall .
12 THE subject of minimum wages came up at The Northern/KPMG Peat Marwick Business Briefing when Sir Ian Wrigglesworth ( CBI , Lib-Dem , ex-Labour ) was the guest speaker .
13 Of the children , only Emma really grew up at Rhydoldog , although the others came back at weekends .
14 The singer later needed his prop when the rains came down at the band 's sell-out ‘ Finstock ’ gig .
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