Example sentences of "[noun sg] come [to-vb] at [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 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 " .
2 Earlier Kevin McNamara , Labour 's shadow Northern Ireland Secretary , described his own meeting on Ulster policy as ‘ overshadowed by a man coming to gloat at the scene of one the gravest blows to democracy carried out in these islands : the bombing of the Conservative Party conference ’ .
3 It rolled along the road coming to rest at the edge of the headlight beam .
4 When he and my mother came to live at the house he bought five Aylesbury ducks to swim on the pond and clear it of weed .
5 The bag came to rest at the small of her back .
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