Example sentences of "come [to-vb] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | Plastic containers , cans and trays line our shop shelves and we have come to expect at least two-fold wrapping and a carrier bag to boot . |
| 2 | She had come to look at the frescos of Sandweg , the frescos that interpreted the story of the Massacre of the Innocents — the slaughter of the male children of Bethlehem at the behest of Herod . |
| 3 | So many of them have come to look at it and gone away promising to let me know — and then , not another word . ’ |
| 4 | The time has come to look at the Treaty of European Union and the philosophy which lies behind it in a little more detail . |
| 5 | But after 25 years loyal service with the RAF , the time has come to look at a more modern replacement . |
| 6 | Mrs Heaton said : ‘ I certainly did not expect this we had come to look at the architecture . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ Very well attended , as an opening occasion should be , but I think half of these people have come to stare at Emily Grenfell who has done the unthinkable and gone into trade . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ This year over seventy new overseas students have come to study at Napier University , ’ announced Professor Turmeau , at the reception held to mark the occasion . |
| 9 | The chair has to come to rest at the bottom of the stairs and you need room to get on and off at both ends . |
| 10 | The Scouts had hellfired crowded transport sledges that slid at speed down glossy oiled vitrodur channels , diving from transit stations , canting along branch-lines , corkscrewing , swooping up to come to rest at other destinations … |
| 11 | In conventional language we talk of a pointer moving across a scale to come to rest at the mark saying " here " or at the mark saying " there " . |
| 12 | The half-stepping scheme is therefore a useful compromise , since the Vo/V1 ratio is not too high and reasonable damping can be achieved by arranging for the motor to come to rest at positions where two phases are excited . |
| 13 | In any case the latter now had a substitute , very agreeable to Dinah ; the young man Nathan Holland who had come to read at Lamprey 's . |
| 14 | ‘ The boy that 's come to live at Beech Place . ’ |
| 15 | She was no longer the girl she had been when they had first come to live at Cherry Tree Farm . |
| 16 | When they had first come to live at Thorsbury , she had felt a little piqued by Stephen 's neglect of her , while realising that his obsession with work was not really of his own choosing . |
| 17 | In the winter the Green Study on the first floor was used ; it was awesome for me following the master there — he was not fond of women novelists with the exception of Evelyn Wharton who had often come to stay at Lamb House . |
| 18 | To disclose whether or not a warrant has been issued in a particular case could establish means whereby those involved in serious crimes or espionage or subversion could learn the extent to which their activities had come to notice or — perhaps more damaging — could in some cases confirm whether their activities had come to notice at all . |
| 19 | In the event , Paris was saved because Galliéni recognized that the moment had come to strike at the Germans when Kluck , wheeling northeast of the city , exposed his right flank to the Sixth Army . |
| 20 | Many of the rather frowsy old biddies who made their living by singing Gay Nineties songs and cadging drinks from the customers , recognized Ella , and several came to sit at our table to have their pictures taken by the resident camera man . |
| 21 | Young Americans followed us and came to sit at our table after we had finished singing for the night . |
| 22 | So that was how I came to sit at the Gorengs ' dining-table with Master Goreng and Longman 's standard conversational texts before us . |
| 23 | In contemporary eyes the theft was no wrong , no crime ; for it was the saint 's own wish — and the happy outcome , and the miracles she came to perform at Conques , proved that there was the home where she wished to dwell . |
| 24 | Grandad arrived in Baldersdale around the turn of the century , to work on the building of the reservoir , and came to lodge at Low Birk Hatt , when Great-Grandfather Tallentire was running it . |
| 25 | In the early days of the strike Jayaben Desai , perhaps Britain 's best known Asian trade unionist , described to me what it had been like when she came to work at Grunwick in the mail order department : |
| 26 | When he came to work at lunchtime , his first question was : ‘ How goes it ? |
| 27 | The dufflecoat would have been the one he had worn when he first came to work at the Establishment . |
| 28 | Stuart had told me that Aj ( whose name is short for Arnold Junior , after the Head Forester of whom he became the spitting image when he first came to work at Clumber as a woodsman ten years ago at the age of sixteen ) was a dab hand with a tractor . |
| 29 | Millworkers ' houses were erected by the owners of Kinleith Mill , along with other houses for the use of quarry workers who came to work at Torphin Quarry . |
| 30 | Later he came to work at the house which was his first entry into Local Government . |