Example sentences of "come [adv] at the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Lucien 's family , they had only come together at the times appointed by the Church : meals , various holidays , family councils and those mysterious , Church-nominated occasions when children were conceived . |
| 2 | If the unholy alliance in favour of the National Curriculum is likely to come apart at the seams over the issue of resource , so also , given the very different aspirations of those who support its introduction , there is likely to be a parting of the ways over principles . |
| 3 | Theda came to herself to find that she lay in a large four-poster bed , with the curtains drawn back , and the weak autumn sun coming in at the windows . |
| 4 | Dave did n't bother to shave until the evenings , and Colin 's shoes had been coming away at the sides for weeks . |
| 5 | He writes that while the state plan of the day was ‘ coming apart at the seams ’ , Khrushchev was toying with radical reform that would reshape the Stalinist economy , and pondering sweeping changes in the constitution of 1936 . |
| 6 | ‘ By the mid-Fifties , ’ said Heston , ‘ That was all coming apart at the seams . |
| 7 | The voice is utterly firm , and there are no places where it gives notice of coming apart at the seams : she does not sport a ‘ separate ’ chest-register or a ‘ separate ’ floated top . |
| 8 | She was an idiot , coming apart at the seams , and she had n't written a word . |
| 9 | The leisurewear industry would come apart at the seams , literally , without this indispensable fastening . |
| 10 | We watch as friendships come apart at the seams , as lives of promise collapse under the weight of illness or despair or disillusion , but there is a reckless exhilaration about it all . |
| 11 | It comes in at the nerve-ends and is translated into chemical and electrical reactions . |