Example sentences of "come [adv] at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Also available from Bisque is the battery-powered , remote-control Bagno-Stat , which allows you to pre-set the towel radiator heater to come on at specific times and maintain required temperatures . |
| 2 | But if he was to come on at three o'clock in the morning , the other man called away would n't be replaced . |
| 3 | At times like that , you call on your mates , and Kenny Everett kindly got us out of a spot of trouble there and agreed to come on at short notice . |
| 4 | I 'm delighted that you 've been able to come along at such short notice . |
| 5 | If the investment managers had to come in they could have come in at any time . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Well sometimes if I 'm doing er say a sixty year old , to sixty five , he 's got his state pension to come in at sixty five , so even if the P E P has n't quite recovered , he might just decide to leave that where it is , and then his state pension comes in , his income is then made up , and off we go again . |
| 9 | I see , I mean it 's good to see really that er test match has been dom well almost dominated at the moment , by , by a slow bowler , it 's an ideal situation for in England , batsmen done their job , England are in command , got lots of runs to play with , but it 's definitely the left arm spinner who 's causing the , the greatest problem out there , he 's , he 's landing it in the right place , he likes variation in that over , confident enough looks very tempted , always very difficult to come in at first twenty minutes as a batsman , when you 've come in on a turning wicket , a very , very , difficult . |
| 10 | The idea , based on a shared controller architecture , was to come in at two to four times the performance of a conventional X box and reach pricing levels of $700-$800 a seat in two to three years . |
| 11 | They do n't want a completely unknown counsellor to come in at this time . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Mr do you want to come in at this stage ? |
| 14 | I tell you , if a helicopter had come down at that customs post , there would have been no stopping me . |
| 15 | Responding to SCOTVEC 's suggestions , however , the Prison Service has now created a support structure across institutions which ensures parity of standards and allows Instructors to come together at regular intervals for staff development sessions . |
| 16 | He was chased out over the Adriatic by fighters and was obliged to come down at Tatoi airport near Athens . |
| 17 | The commando parties were to come ashore at three points : over the bows of Campbeltown ; on the Old Entrance quays ; and on the Old Mole . |
| 18 | By early March , oil had come ashore at various points along a strip of Saudi coastline stretching some 130 miles south of the Kuwaiti border . |
| 19 | In addition , Alexander Hardinge , who had replaced Wigram as private secretary to the King and who constantly saw his loyalty as lying with the institution and not with the person , was available to come over at short notice and did so . |
| 20 | I said you were mad to come over at this time . |
| 21 | It was as if the news had never come through at all . |
| 22 | I 'm surprised you bother to come home at all ! ’ |
| 23 | ‘ It 's a pity you bothered to come home at all , darling , ’ said Mrs. Mounce . |
| 24 | and she said something about , oh we 've been to that new pub , she said , mind , she said , we had to come home at half past nine , she said , he 'd had enough , she said , he were ready for bed , God , she said he 's turning into a right old man , and you know what I mean , she did n't , she would n't , |
| 25 | One autumn night , when Liz was preparing for Oxford and Cambridge entrance , Shirley had come home at ten from the Harpers ' , flushed from sexual excitement and from running through the cold streets under the yellowing smoke-scented suburban trees , her body on fire , and had found Liz still sitting where she had left her , two hours earlier , at the kitchen table , staring at the pale-green wall , as though in a catatonic trance . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Like Miss Honey , she felt sure both ears were going to come off at any moment with all the weight that was on them . |
| 28 | My hic hyacinths have all come out except no , they 've all come out , one goron l looks like it 's gone and lot congealed little bad and another hyacinth has two have come up and other ones not come up at all . |
| 29 | I do n't know if that 's come up at any point . |
| 30 | He had seen his earliest pupils , as had my father , either not come back at all , or come back broken men . |