Example sentences of "come at [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 'm sad that it folded , but it 's come at a good time , ’ she tells me . |
| 2 | ‘ He 's rather busy — you 've come at a bad time , I 'm afraid , Miss Holbrook . |
| 3 | ‘ He 's probably come at a bad time , ’ said Pool 's longest serving player . |
| 4 | Conchis was no more than the chance agent , the event that had come at the right time ; just as in the old days I might , after a celibate term at Oxford , have met a girl and begun an affaire with her , I had begun something exciting with him . |
| 5 | Creaney , who now forms a new strike partnership with Andy Payton , and has nudged his boyhood idol Charlie Nicholas into reserve football , feels the Cologne tie has come at the right time . |
| 6 | This new expansion of the department has come at the right moment for the National Railway Museum in view of the recent acquisition of the Ian Allan negative collection . |
| 7 | And Africans — ANC leaders and trades unionists tell us , ‘ MRA has come at the right moment . ’ |
| 8 | Suddenly , she knew that her aunt 's news had come at the perfect time . |
| 9 | It was to this area that the Hasteds had come at the very beginning of the 19th century ; previously their home had been in the City , in the parishes of St Katherine Coleman and St Olave , Hart Street , but like many of their contemporaries they made the pilgrimage east . |
| 10 | You have come at the wrong time . |
| 11 | ‘ This validation from the Prime Minister has come at an important time for the industry as it strives to get up off its knees , ’ said Keith Banbury , Chief Executive . |
| 12 | The charges against Mr Perez have come at an inconvenient moment , not only for him but also for Venezuela . |
| 13 | William was forced by the lie of the land to come at the Saxon strongpoint from the south . |
| 14 | Charlie is unaware of the spirits alive in him , so that the narrator of the story is frustrated in his attempt to come at the uncluttered account of past lives . |
| 15 | Whichever way I try to come at the Unknown Substance it remains just beyond my grasp . |
| 16 | The political will came at a critical time when it was very necessary to keep the food costs component of the total wage bill ( including the foreign exchange component ) as low as possible to allow rapid and profitable industrialisation . |
| 17 | The first skirmish over the national security issue came at a closed hearing on Jan. 11 when it was reported that the prosecution had accused the lawyer of one of Noriega 's co-defendants of improperly disclosing classified information when making an earlier request for access to National Security Council records . |
| 18 | But that Triple Crown and Championship of ‘ 85 came at a terrible price . |
| 19 | The decision to agree in principle came at a Labour group meeting at the start of COSLA 's annual conference . |
| 20 | Dr Robat Williams , who has devised the joint charter , said the launch came at a difficult time because of the General Election campaign . |
| 21 | THE YORKSHIRE COUNTY CRICKET CLUB YEARBOOK 1992 — McDermott 's withdrawal came at a bad time : an anticipatory profile of the Queensland firebreather leads the 92nd edition , followed by a réumé of others born outside the county line . |
| 22 | It all came at the right time , she said , at exactly the right time . |
| 23 | ‘ You came at the right time to save me and Hawkins . ’ |
| 24 | Sometimes Julia accompanied her , and as they travelled home one day Carrie said thoughtfully , ‘ You know I never wished Ma dead , Julie , but I 've got to admit her death came at the right time for me . |
| 25 | It came at the right time . |
| 26 | Ghandi came at the right time , you know . |
| 27 | The writer discovered or was introduced to Robinson Crusoe too early , so that it appeared to be a tedious book ; Mervyn Peake 's Gormenghast trilogy appeared a little too late , so that he accepted it with a little less excitement than it deserved ; and Proust 's Remembrance of things past came at the right moment when he had the tenacity for the task . |
| 28 | With correct positioning , to ensure the join came at the right point with the stairs , and a generous overlap , we could cut the correct angle through both . |
| 29 | Both had pars at the 37th - their third visit of the day to the first hole — and the end came at the short second where Faldo hit a seven-iron to three feet to break the deadlock with a two to a three . |
| 30 | Now she came at the bitter end and she never did anything . |