Example sentences of "the [noun pl] come at " in BNC.
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| 1 | You also need to allow headroom by leaving a little space between the top edge of the frame and the subject 's head , except for big c.lose-ups when the rule is to set the head so that the eyes come at about two-thirds of the height of the picture . |
| 2 | When he stood up , brushing his hands , the dogs came at him , barking with greater confidence than before , as if they had learnt his secret and wanted to tell . |
| 3 | My arm was tingling , like it 's supposed to do when the Neptunians come at you through the undergrowth , foetal implants in hand . |
| 4 | There you are look the fast the r the number changes to yellow and the colours come at the bottom when you normal |
| 5 | I lit up and stood there trying to answer all the questions coming at me in French and English . |
| 6 | The disclosures come at a time when there are three known bids by senior civil servants to buy out part of the Crown Suppliers when it is privatised next year . |
| 7 | Then the tears came at last , and she could n't say another word . |
| 8 | You know the tears came at this time |
| 9 | And of course , it took her no time to work out that precisely the opposite would apply to the beams coming at her from the front of the craft . |
| 10 | The decisions came at a meeting of a sub-committee of the highways committee . |
| 11 | ‘ I was making my way over a field to the hives when I ‘ sort of ’ tripped over one of them and the bees came at me , ’ he said . |
| 12 | The support given to Vera Coppard and her family by the Quakers came at a point when the Jewish organisations in Berlin and Vienna were reduced almost to the point of impotence . |
| 13 | The incidents came at a time when Sellafield was already facing prosecution for allegedly not taking proper safety precautions at its high-level waste processing plant ( see above ) and when it is seeking new authorisations for discharges into the air . |
| 14 | The killings came at the end of a weekend of racial violence in which a 27-year-old student was stabbed to death , more than 12 people seriously hurt and 25 arrested . |
| 15 | CARE will also fly in seeds and tools needed before the rains come at the end of the month . |