Example sentences of "[noun sg] come [adv prt] at [det] " in BNC.

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1 For a drainage level to come in at this depth would have required some 600 ft. of tunnelling and of course , since the art of blasting was not yet introduced , it would have been a protracted and costly operation .
2 They looked at each other and laughed as they went for the top A and each found that no noise came out at all .
3 He leaned over to catch his father 's sleeve and hissed , ‘ No feckin' need to come back at all ! ’
4 Nan came in at that moment .
5 Every window was black with paint and there was no air coming in at all and you walk in between very very hot ovens and the sweat was lashing down your back .
6 They do n't want a completely unknown counsellor to come in at this time .
7 Then the words rebounded back to my ears and I heard their sound and their meaning , and the pain came back at that moment , too , and it all made sense , the way a policeman 's knock on the door must make sense when you 've committed a crime .
8 Skills such as note-taking come in at this stage , and one way of approaching this is to use the questions originally formulated as a structure for notes taken , so that children are noting down things they need to know , rather than every conceivably useful point .
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