Example sentences of "[adv] come at [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 Whatever the truth , the unwelcome publicity could not come at a worse time for Mercedes — just as it is launching its new top-of-the-range ‘ S ’ model after 12 years of development .
3 Newspaper reports on 12th March that the Bank of Ireland is to shed 600 of its staff over the coming years could not come at a worse time for the economy .
4 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 .
5 Learning handwriting with the non-dominant hand is difficult , so it usually comes at a late stage of recovery .
6 In life , the right man to love hardly ever comes at the right time for loving .
7 ‘ He 's probably come at a bad time , ’ said Pool 's longest serving player .
8 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 .
9 ‘ We only found out Peter was n't coming at the last minute .
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