Example sentences of "coming [adv prt] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fuck it , we thought , it 's the first time Malcolm 's splashed out and Vivienne 's coming on at us like some kind of school maam , and Malcolm was n't bothered , he was past caring . |
| 2 | This acute retention of urine constitutes one of medicine 's most uncomfortable emergencies , with its habit of coming on at the end of and evening 's drinking ( usually beer ) adding a bloated urgency to the situation . |
| 3 | Even when set up correctly some units have their clip lights coming on at the slightest provocation , while the Alpha seems to have more headroom before it clips , which should therefore mean less chance of unwanted distortion . |
| 4 | You had to get everything done by the day staff coming on at seven . |
| 5 | Noses to the ground , the dogs were coming on at an fast , distance-consuming lope . |
| 6 | Substitute Dean Gordon gave Comrades a tonic when he scored within a minute of coming on at the start of the second half , but David Montgomery got Carrick 's third two minutes from the end , with Wesley Hanna being sent off for protesting just a little too vociferously . |
| 7 | Substitute Dean Gordon gave Comrades a tonic when he scored within a minute of coming on at the start of the second half , but David Montgomery got Carrick 's third two minutes from the end , with Wesley Hanna sent off for protesting . |
| 8 | Kids ' stuff : Kevin Thomas , Hearts ' 17-year-old debutant , acclaims his goal , scored minutes after coming on at Tynecastle on Saturday . |
| 9 | Nice to see the kitchen 's coming on at last . |
| 10 | Strange that David should be coming along at that very moment that she 'd emerged on to the main road . |
| 11 | THE cost of borrowing is coming down at last . |
| 12 | Mrs. Jervis , step upstairs to keep the maids from coming down at this noise . |
| 13 | Pretty much the same sort of shit was coming down at AMS , if we 'd gone looking for it , and of course it was happening all over town at well-known locations : St Mary 's , St Andrew 's , St Anne 's . |
| 14 | She told Lizzie now that she would be coming down at the weekend and asked her if she would be kind enough to get her old room ready for her . |
| 15 | Were your hours coming down at all ? |
| 16 | Reaction to their two recently-rescued Sam Powell ales , formerly brewed by the Sam Powell Brewery in Newtown , Powys , is also very encouraging , with repeat orders coming in at a good rate . |
| 17 | After Donal Lenihan 's withdrawal , the captaincy yesterday passed to Rob Andrew , the Lions stand-off in the second and third Test wins over the Wallabies , with Damian Cronin coming in at lock for the injured Irishman . |
| 18 | ‘ Otherwise , if they keep coming in at the same rate , Hong Kong will be totally swamped and will not be able to cope . |
| 19 | Only Lamb , coming in at number eight and hitting fours off one leg , averted total disgrace , 138 all out leaving just 65 needed for victory . |
| 20 | Pastoral barley on light land , giving a ‘ good average ’ yield in excess of 6.3t/ha ( 2.5t/acre ) was coming in at 13.5% moisture — ‘ better than expected ’ . |
| 21 | Mr Browning coming in at that very moment ran to his wife 's side and all but hauled her out of the bed in order to get her upright — in a moment , the convulsion was over and she sank back quite exhausted and drained . |
| 22 | Essex were , for a time , in some trouble after Munton had claimed two wickets in as many balls but Gooch , still snuffling after his touch of ‘ flu and coming in at an unaccustomed No 5 position , thwarted the hat-trick ball . |
| 23 | The pressure of his foot on a wired pad under the stair-carpet has triggered the burglar alarm , which Raymond , amazingly , must have remembered to set after coming in at God knows what hour last night . |
| 24 | A person of ‘ quality ’ — such as a member of the landed gentry or the clergy — would be at the top of their scale , commanding a funeral similar to that organized by the College of Arms for a knight bachelor , with paupers and wayfarers coming in at the bottom . |
| 25 | of 1826 coming in at a deserved third in the field . |
| 26 | Guns and Killing magazine currently rate her as the sixth most dangerous solo outlaw in the Americas , and she is the highest-ranked woman on the list , coming in at thirty-seven places above the Antarctic esperado Ice Kold Katie . |
| 27 | The club 's Jason Fry was undoubtedly the hero of the day , coming in at one rubber down to retrieve the match with a second string singles victory over Pavilion & Avenue Hove player Stephen Bloomfield . |
| 28 | Being a rebel in Taibach 's mining and chapel community was coming in at 1O.50 when you had promised to be in by 1O.15 . |
| 29 | In surveys of the retail outlets in Akihabara , a well-known electronics outlet area in Tokyo , the Macintosh LCIII and the Mac Colour Classic ranked in the top 10 most popular computers for sales in February , coming in at numbers six and nine respectively . |
| 30 | OS/2 will get 8.5% of the total workstation market by 1996 , it says , with Unix coming in at a hefty 47% and Windows NT possibly capturing 30–40% of the office desktop/workstation market . |