Example sentences of "come at the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | And Africans — ANC leaders and trades unionists tell us , ‘ MRA has come at the right moment . ’ |
| 5 | Suddenly , she knew that her aunt 's news had come at the perfect time . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | You have come at the wrong time . |
| 8 | William was forced by the lie of the land to come at the Saxon strongpoint from the south . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Whichever way I try to come at the Unknown Substance it remains just beyond my grasp . |
| 11 | It all came at the right time , she said , at exactly the right time . |
| 12 | ‘ You came at the right time to save me and Hawkins . ’ |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | It came at the right time . |
| 15 | Ghandi came at the right time , you know . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Now she came at the bitter end and she never did anything . |
| 20 | A copy is coming at the relevant bit er for those who do n't have it . |
| 21 | No two candidates will respond to questions in exactly the same way so you must keep a fair amount of flexibility in your approach — it would be wrong to stop a candidate from following up an interesting and potentially revealing answer simply because it is not coming at the designated point in your schedule . |
| 22 | This format makes it easy to fit the words to the ( edited ) pictures and to cue them to the start of each section so that they all come at the right place when they are being recorded onto the video sound track . |
| 23 | In life , the right man to love hardly ever comes at the right time for loving . |
| 24 | The fact is that the greatest mystery of all — the Incarnation — comes at the very beginning and is the central reason why we believe in God . |
| 25 | But worse is that it comes at the very moment Davies and Jeff Young , the WRU technical director , and forward-looking others have put into place a representative structure designed to facilitate the flow of full international candidates . |
| 26 | But , I think the major difference between the two comes at the very end of the books . |