Example sentences of "coming [adv] at the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 He says he has high hopes for unity finally and apparently thinks the industry might start coming together at the Unix International members meeting in New Orleans February 11–12 where some 100 companies and 200 people will assemble .
2 To him the childhood wedding had been something of a charade during which each character had played a part , knowing that the coming together at the end — the whole story — was not to be taken seriously .
3 She obviously uses it each week , so it 's all rotted all coming away at the back of the pan .
4 Harry watched him fall back and noted that a considerable quantity of blood was coming away at the mouth .
5 Dave did n't bother to shave until the evenings , and Colin 's shoes had been coming away at the sides for weeks .
6 He writes that while the state plan of the day was ‘ coming apart at the seams ’ , Khrushchev was toying with radical reform that would reshape the Stalinist economy , and pondering sweeping changes in the constitution of 1936 .
7 ‘ By the mid-Fifties , ’ said Heston , ‘ That was all coming apart at the seams .
8 The voice is utterly firm , and there are no places where it gives notice of coming apart at the seams : she does not sport a ‘ separate ’ chest-register or a ‘ separate ’ floated top .
9 She was an idiot , coming apart at the seams , and she had n't written a word .
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