Example sentences of "came at the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The warning came at the opening of the European pig and poultry fair at the National Agricultural Centre . |
| 2 | Some who came at the outset no longer come to events , but others have joined since . |
| 3 | Its only significant achievements came at the outset , when the Great Powers recognized the legitimacy of de Gaulle 's government and invited France to become a permanent member of the United Nations Security Council — a status which would almost certainly not have been offered , had there been no de Gaulle and no Free France . |
| 4 | It was almost 4 a.m. when the three loud knocks came at the door . |
| 5 | The disclosure came at the trial for insider trading of Thorold Mackie , an investment analyst and director of Bell Lawrie White . |
| 6 | that neither angel nor devil came at the hour that he was dead . |
| 7 | His second came at the ticket booth , where there was no-one for him to show his first-class ticket to . |
| 8 | According to the London-based Africa Confidential newsletter of May 22 , the delay came at the insistence of the opposition , which , while claiming that the rainy season would create transport problems for delegates , was in fact concerned that comparatively few parties had as yet been granted legal status . |
| 9 | The first exchange came at the beginning of November 1929 . |
| 10 | The summer came at the beginning of August . |
| 11 | The exceptional moment when the spirit of Brahms materialised came at the beginning of the andante where Pauline Dowse 's cello solo evoked the inner stillness of the composer — all moonlight , warmth and swaying tree tops . |
| 12 | A final triumph came at the Paris exhibition of 1878 , where he and ( Sir ) Arthur Sullivan [ q.v. ] organized the British musical element , and Leslie 's choir won first prize in the international choral competition . |
| 13 | Signs of willingness to finalize a no-attack treaty came at the conclusion of a third round of high-level talks on Dec. 18-20 in Islamabad , Pakistan , between the Indian foreign secretary Muchkund Dubey and his Pakistani counterpart , Shahryar Khan . |
| 14 | The agreement came at the conclusion of a two-day meeting in Paris of the World Bank 's Egypt consultative group — the first time it had met since 1981 . |
| 15 | Sometimes , but not too often , there was the sound of a window being broken , whereupon a general speedy exodus took place , with the consequent panic whenever a knock came at the street door during the next few days . |
| 16 | Even Bean 's reluctant character , inevitably christened Whizzo , came at the rattle of a food bucket . |
| 17 | Unlike most catalogues today , the vegetables usually came at the front with similarly enticing but just as unbelievable pictures as we find in today 's catalogues . |
| 18 | The origins of this transformation may be traced back into the late 19th century but the upheaval finally came at the time of Vietnam , flower-power and the campus revolutions . |
| 19 | Michel Laclotte came at the time he was working on the Musée D'Orsay . |
| 20 | His first taste of Test captaincy came at the Oval in 1988 ; he was unable to stem the West Indian flood , but produced a battling second innings to make a game of it . |
| 21 | Leicester 's injury crisis came at the double when defender Richard Smith was carried off a minute after the break — and another trainee Neil |
| 22 | Her moment came at the end of the first course when , without any apparent signal , the parlourmaid came back into the room . |
| 23 | Everything was Nordic or Russian except the Lehar group that came at the end . |
| 24 | The almost unanimous passage of the decree , by 364 votes to 6 , came at the end of a day of turmoil at the Supreme Soviet sitting in the Kremlin . |
| 25 | But our real kick came at the end of the film when the lights went up . |
| 26 | Five of those minutes came at the end of the first half , allowing Hein to score the first of his morale-boosting tries for Oxford in the right corner . |
| 27 | Bonanza Boy finished a remote eighth in the race and is 10lb worse off with Little Polveir but it is unwise to judge him on that performance which came at the end of a long season after some punishing contests . |
| 28 | Perhaps for many of the fans the best moment of all came at the end of the fifth Test , when Tony Greig went out and ‘ grovelled ’ before them . |
| 29 | A note duly came at the end of September , hurtful in its brevity , frustrating in its lack of information : — thank you for the money sister which is put to good use your son being in need of shoes and all manner of apparel since he grows apace . |
| 30 | His impassioned speech came at the end of a day of increasing speculation over the likelihood that the Liberal Democrats could hold the balance of power after Thursday 's general election . |