Example sentences of "come to rest at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 " . |
| 3 | The lift came to rest at the first floor and the door slid open . |
| 4 | When they immediately reacted with their automatic alarm response of rolling up into a tight ball , the entire family promptly rolled down the slope of the hill and came to rest at the man 's feet , where he picked them up and popped them into his collecting bag . |
| 5 | The glass moved more smoothly , more quickly , then came to rest at the figure zero . |
| 6 | Fran closed her eyes , willing the frantic pounding of her pulse to slow , but when his fingers completed their slow journey and came to rest at the base of her neck she knew that he could feel every frantic beat . |
| 7 | The bag came to rest at the small of her back . |
| 8 | It rolled along the road coming to rest at the edge of the headlight beam . |
| 9 | At very low stepping rates the motor comes to rest at the appropriate equilibrium position after each excitation change . |