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 | 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 . |
| 10 | ‘ The boy that 's come to live at Beech Place . ’ |
| 11 | She was no longer the girl she had been when they had first come to live at Cherry Tree Farm . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |