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 | 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 . |
| 5 | Uncontroversial and fairly routine questions — not always easy to spot — should normally come at the beginning , leaving personal and more intimate ones for later . |
| 6 | There are , however , preliminary items and also at least two others that normally come at the end . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 ) . |
| 9 | In life , the right man to love hardly ever comes at the right time for loving . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Vomiting often comes at the close of a chill ; vomiting of bile between the chill and the heat . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Another sore point was de Gaulle 's fondness for theatricality and rhetoric , which sometimes came at the expense of substance . |