Example sentences of "come at [adj] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 By Wednesday the 208 had been reduced by 100 after four rounds , the cut having come at four over par .
2 By Wednesday the 208 had been reduced by 100 after four rounds , the cut having come at four over par .
3 The time had come at last for Confucius to bow to the sages of the modern world !
4 A quality housing conversion has come at last to one of Paisley 's oldest landmarks , the John Neilson Institution , and saved the building from the ravages of rot .
5 And he came at half past seven and he cleaned it and he looked at it , and he said er it was n't anything that he could see , he thinks it was just down draught , but we 've had winds before .
6 They turned through the narrow Kendal Dyke into a lovely wilderness of reeds and water , sailed from one to another of the posts that mark the channel , came to a signpost standing not on land but out in the middle of the Sounds , read ‘ to Horsey ’ on one side of it , reached away through Meadow Dyke , so narrow that they could easily have jumped ashore , and came at last to the open Mere .
7 We came at last to his office which was basically a roomette like my own : that is to say , it was a seven-by-four-foot space on one side of a central corridor , containing a washbasin , a folding table and two seats , one of which concealed what the timetable coyly called ‘ facilities ’ .
8 Another time , Swan flew through the night for what seemed like hours and hours until they came at last to a gigantic opening in the earth 's surface , a sort of huge gaping hole in the ground , and Swan glided slowly round and round above this massive crater and then right down into it .
9 It was sent to her home and came at last to her family .
10 The climb continued by Knarlton hoot to Hudson Quarry , where wild sage was growing thickly amongst the limestone and grass , until I came at last to the rougher pasture below Hazely .
11 Outside , he headed for the bridge and there , halfway across , he came at last to a halt , with traffic rushing past , the river gleaming below and the city reaching away in an infinite complex parade of shining white and pearly grey with light snapping from windows and cars .
12 He came at last to a small , lean-to workshop where a girl , seated at a bench with her back to him , was decorating a pot placed on a turntable .
13 They came at last to the great , bulky empty house , staring across to parklands through the inspired grouping of its trees .
14 So she kept to the woods , following the way Pedro had led , until she came at last to the clearing at the head of the ride .
15 We came at last to a clearing brought about by a massive outcrop of rock .
16 despite the fact that the invasion came at last on Friday morning .
17 The crisis came at 5-5 in the second game , by which time Horner had begun to dig in .
18 First news of the casualty came at 1700 on Wednesday 21 November 1990 when Great Yarmouth Coastguard informed Cromer that the 1,300-ton Stavroula , was aground on the Mid Haisbro Sand but in no danger .
19 ‘ That other boy who is going to do the hens for me is coming at six for me to show him what to do .
20 Your dad 's coming at half past four .
21 Anyway , he insisted he was coming at half past seven .
22 You know you said there was a bus coming at half past eight .
23 There are n't the hours in the day , ten to eleven , your Mum 's coming at half past twelve .
24 Oh I 'm not just a pretty face I do n't remember what dates it has , make up three appropriate dates So they 're both coming at half past twelve , yeah ?
25 Well I 'm hoping they 'll come at half past eight .
26 As we progress up the scale of profit-taking , we find others who sell at small craft fairs and those who find an outlet through local shops , until we come at last to the favoured few who sell at the prestigious crafts fairs which Hugh prefers .
27 After various other criteria , we come at last to the manner in which this knowledge and understanding must be expressed .
28 I come at last to the case against conventionalism .
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