Example sentences of "come [adv] at the [noun] " 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 | ‘ Not that anyone 's going to come anyway at the moment . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The reasons for the job cuts are a classified secret , but volunteers for redundancy and early retirement are being urged to come forward at the base in Cheltenham , where seven thousand people work . |
| 5 | Fierce repression failed to eliminate the growing strength of the Social Democrats , and in 1887 , after decades of faction fighting , the groups came together at the Hainfeld Congress to form a single multinational party under the foremost Social Democrat , Victor Adler . |
| 6 | Its end came only at the end of the century as a result of the Elementary Education ( Blind and Deaf Children ) Act which became law in 1903 . |
| 7 | The success of Alain Aspect 's team in confirming experimentally one of the more subtle predictions of the theory ( New Scientist , 6 January , p 17 ) came just at the time when , in an echo of the great days of J. G. Crowther , The Guardian published Terry Clark 's report of an experiment in which a macroscopic object can be made to behave , in some respects , like a single quantum ‘ particle ’ , and when these weighty tomes arrived for review . |
| 8 | ‘ It came just at the time Michael 's voice was breaking and Britten wanted him in that part , so he rewrote it as a young tenor . |
| 9 | He came home at the home did n't you ? |
| 10 | Schooldays and the void they both felt when the boys went off to boarding school , followed by the joy unconfined when they came home at the end of term . |
| 11 | Robert Asshe came home at the end of the evening performance , traces of grease-paint still on his face . |
| 12 | ‘ I came here at the beginning of the week thinking that this was my last tournament for the year , maybe forever , ’ Evert said . |
| 13 | Vice-chairman Sydney Moss revealed : ‘ He came here at the age of four , then stood on the Kop when he was old enough . |
| 14 | Whores of all sexes , augmented and non- , came here at the start and end of their shift to meet pimps , pushers , and ‘ privileged ’ clients . |
| 15 | I came here at the instigation of your letter , believing myself to have secured a position . |
| 16 | They covered that without difficulty before dark , their only delay a meeting-up with their late fellow-invaders , the Armstrongs , whom they came across at the Kershopefoot crossing of Liddel Water , driving an even larger drove of cattle from Gilsland than the main body had collected , and taking a more northerly course home . |
| 17 | Even nationalists such as myself began to tire of it , until the modern British revival that came unexpectedly at the Sydney Football stadium in the Third Test 1988 . |
| 18 | He says he has high hopes for unity finally and apparently thinks the industry might start coming together at the Unix International members meeting in New Orleans February 11–12 where some 100 companies and 200 people will assemble . |
| 19 | To him the childhood wedding had been something of a charade during which each character had played a part , knowing that the coming together at the end — the whole story — was not to be taken seriously . |
| 20 | She obviously uses it each week , so it 's all rotted all coming away at the back of the pan . |
| 21 | Harry watched him fall back and noted that a considerable quantity of blood was coming away at the mouth . |
| 22 | Dave did n't bother to shave until the evenings , and Colin 's shoes had been coming away at the sides for weeks . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | ‘ By the mid-Fifties , ’ said Heston , ‘ That was all coming apart at the seams . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | She was an idiot , coming apart at the seams , and she had n't written a word . |
| 27 | A stroke does not come suddenly at the age of 75 or 80 and finish life . |
| 28 | Future : Jesus who will come again at the end of time as King of Kings ; as Judge of the living and the dead ; and who will usher his faithful people into the Kingdom of his Father . |
| 29 | The leisurewear industry would come apart at the seams , literally , without this indispensable fastening . |
| 30 | The ‘ first night ’ was always a little tense and emotional as we saw hundreds come forward at the end of the service to commit their lives to Christ . |