Example sentences of "[noun sg] come [verb] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sir Wilfred Grenfell of Labrador came to speak at the White Rock Pavilion , Hastings , at his request . |
| 2 | ‘ Whenever I stand in the middle of a big field , ’ she said , ‘ I expect some harpy to come flying at me with a hockey stick . |
| 3 | A security guard came to smile at our picnic on the grass . |
| 4 | Sometimes some of the sheep and goats are hidden , and when the flock comes to rest at midday the boy is given a few minutes in which to inspect gothorima and report . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The lift came to rest at the first floor and the door slid open . |
| 7 | I have myself been welcomed as a local council surveyor come to look at houses in a slum area , and I had an assistant who was once received as a person who was trying to recruit voluntary social workers . |
| 8 | At very low stepping rates the motor comes to rest at the appropriate equilibrium position after each excitation change . |
| 9 | 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 " . |
| 10 | One day a very poor man came begging at his door . |
| 11 | Bob Collins did n't like it when the past came knocking at his door . |
| 12 | 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 ’ . |
| 13 | It rolled along the road coming to rest at the edge of the headlight beam . |
| 14 | It was another stunningly hot , windless day , the sky an unclouded eggshell-blue , the temperature in the high seventies , so it was good to hang my head from the open window of Edward 's car and let the air come pelting at my face . |
| 15 | Even when we were at home , neighbours and friends from all parts of the country came to look at me , and my master made me work hard to amuse them . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Donald 's son came to stay at weekends sometimes . |
| 18 | The bag came to rest at the small of her back . |
| 19 | Yeah but they only guarantee what if part is failure , if the the guy come to look at it they still charge you labour . |