Example sentences of "come [verb] [adv prt] at the " in BNC.

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1 Three or four knights had come hastening in at the sound of their lord 's voice .
2 However , I made my position very clear to the Whaddon and Mitchley Argus sports hack , Mark Crowe , when he came sniffing round at the funeral .
3 ‘ We 're in luck , ’ said Jonna , as Ned came panting in at the doorway with an armful of heavily-foliaged twigs .
4 Next moment the swirling fog in the alley was suddenly lit to a brilliant white by the head lamps of the car which came roaring in at the far end .
5 It relates to that other world , the great shabby confusion outside these walls to which I return each evening , to Timmy and Cheryl , to my mother-in-law who comes to help out at the weekends , to everything unresolved and unsatisfactory .
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