Example sentences of "come [adv] [verb] at the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The eerie lights would hang in the air for quite some time then the mortars came over to burst at the edge of the wood . |
| 2 | The ever increasing army of tourists who came up to look at the scenery was growing . |
| 3 | Still looking doubtful , she went off to fill the order , and when Ellie had eaten it all , down to the very last scrap , and had two cups of coffee , she came back to stand at the table , full of admiration and amazement . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | She cut through the heady memories and concentrated her mind on what Steve was saying while she watched a superb glossy white yacht coming in to berth at the jetty not fifty metres from the window of the restaurant . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | And then I woke up again , and I come upstairs to look at the clock and it was half past three . |
| 9 | John feels better , so he comes down to sit at the kitchen table and chat . |