Example sentences of "[pers pn] come at [adj] " in BNC.

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1 For all her encouragement to them to come at any time to her house , Rose herself was wary of calling at Great Meadow .
2 The climb continued by Knarlton hoot to Hudson Quarry , where wild sage was growing thickly amongst the limestone and grass , until I came at last to the rougher pasture below Hazely .
3 Can I come at three ?
4 I come at last to the case against conventionalism .
5 " It 's good of you to come at such short notice , very good , " said Willis .
6 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 . ’
7 ‘ Sure and was n't it an act of God that you came at all ? ’
8 She came at last , swathed in mink , ushered in by the perspiring PRO .
9 So she kept to the woods , following the way Pedro had led , until she came at last to the clearing at the head of the ride .
10 ‘ Wy did you come at all ? ’
11 ‘ Why do you come at all ? ’
12 ‘ Then why did you come at all ? ’
13 I , I said the truth is that everybody stop work at twelve and we do our paperwork and and we 're normally finished by two o'clock , and if you come to the factory by twelve o'clock you wo n't find any machines working , and if you come at two o'clock you wo n't find any storeman working so that is the truth .
14 No , she 'll come Sunday if she comes at all .
15 But when we came at first there were these erm there were these er street street musicians you know .
16 We came at last to his office which was basically a roomette like my own : that is to say , it was a seven-by-four-foot space on one side of a central corridor , containing a washbasin , a folding table and two seats , one of which concealed what the timetable coyly called ‘ facilities ’ .
17 We came at last to a clearing brought about by a massive outcrop of rock .
18 Do we come at eleven thirty or three ?
19 As we progress up the scale of profit-taking , we find others who sell at small craft fairs and those who find an outlet through local shops , until we come at last to the favoured few who sell at the prestigious crafts fairs which Hugh prefers .
20 After various other criteria , we come at last to the manner in which this knowledge and understanding must be expressed .
21 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 .
22 Beside him Carol watched the modern-day gladiators as they came at each other .
23 Well , when they came at first they says , see the way they 've got there
24 They came at full speed , the leading man aiming to Sharpe 's left , the other pulling to his right .
25 They came at ten o'clock .
26 A. R. They came at last .
27 Another time , Swan flew through the night for what seemed like hours and hours until they came at last to a gigantic opening in the earth 's surface , a sort of huge gaping hole in the ground , and Swan glided slowly round and round above this massive crater and then right down into it .
28 They came at last , in the warm Sunday stillness , to the broad avenues of central Berlin .
29 They came at last to the great , bulky empty house , staring across to parklands through the inspired grouping of its trees .
30 ‘ It 'll soon be dark and then we wo n't be able to see him coming at all . ’
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