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

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1 If the investment managers had to come in they could have come in at any time .
2 Cos it 's an outdoor job , it 's a three shift system for those on the bottom , er early , morning and late , cos the eight hour day had come in at this time .
3 We are concerned in fact that er the western nations did n't rather deplore earlier er Hussein 's actions against his own people using chemical weapons , and we think it 's a shame for us that we 've only come in at this point , and we must come in carefully I think .
4 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 .
5 Mr do you want to come in at this stage ?
6 They do n't want a completely unknown counsellor to come in at this time .
7 I tell you , if a helicopter had come down at that customs post , there would have been no stopping me .
8 I said you were mad to come over at this time .
9 Breathlessly , Jenny poured out the news that the rear offside wheel of Miss Clinton 's car was loose , likely to come off at any moment , sooner or later certain to come off .
10 Like Miss Honey , she felt sure both ears were going to come off at any moment with all the weight that was on them .
11 I do n't know if that 's come up at any point .
12 It was open to her to come back at any time .
13 His hands came down at either side of her , trapping her against the wall .
14 Nan came in at that moment .
15 He turned away impatiently and Jules came in at that moment , bringing coffee on a silver tray , and the conversation had to end , to Jenna 's great relief .
16 Ilse came in at that moment .
17 Patterned Fair Isle yoke pullovers came in at this time , then polo necks .
18 Twice I came off at that spot .
19 Flu victims Steve Gaughan , who was absent from Tuesday 's disastrous defeat by Reading , and Garry Hinchley , who played but came off at half time , are slowly recovering , and should be ready for consideration .
20 Jack came back at that moment .
21 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 .
22 ‘ She never came back at all while Dad was alive .
23 My father had another , everything was okay if you came out at any time after the thirty first of March , look all I 'm doing now is I was giving back , er taking my position as the company director , getting a salary off the rent in my farms and small holdings and my shares in shipping .
24 Mrs. Jervis , step upstairs to keep the maids from coming down at this noise .
25 What money did you have coming in at that time in fact ?
26 Shifts split up the family so that men would be coming in at all hours of the day , waiting for the bath-tin and the water and a woman to wash their backs .
27 ‘ I do n't remember it coming up at that meeting of Senate , ’ says Philip .
28 She says , I 'm ever so sorry for coming up at that time she says , but I did notice Maggie 's light were n't on that 's
29 To miss the odd target is acceptable , but not finds coming up at this rate and in such a confined area .
30 On a table in the hall was a pile of letters , addressed to officers who might be dead , or in prison camps , or coming back at any moment … .
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