Example sentences of "come [adv] to look [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | The ever increasing army of tourists who came up to look at the scenery was growing . |
2 | He came across to look at the image open on my lectern : a wild man covered in shaggy green fur was fighting a little hon with a club . |
3 | Strombolian activity , then , is a bit noisier than Hawaiian , but it 's still not particularly dangerous — there are two villages on Stromboli only a couple of kilometres from the ever-active vent , and the inhabitants rarely have cause to worry about whether they will live to see the sun rise on another day , or on another boatload of visitors coming across to look at the volcano . |
4 | He had even come there to look at the river at low tide , it was in Ellen Ash 's Journal , they had brought a picnic of chicken and parsley pie . |
5 | And then I woke up again , and I come upstairs to look at the clock and it was half past three . |