Example sentences of "come [verb] at the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mrs Heaton said : ‘ I certainly did not expect this we had come to look at the architecture . ’ |
| 2 | The time has come to look at the Treaty of European Union and the philosophy which lies behind it in a little more detail . |
| 3 | 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 " . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | I wonder whether the same view would apply if Neil Young or Van Morrison came knocking at the door . ’ |
| 6 | The poor , sick , bereaved , came knocking at the door . |
| 7 | A small opportunity arose when Lizzie came knocking at the door for the ceremonial delivery of two silver-bound shoulder sprays , one , a gardenia , the other an orchid , and a card which said : From Robert . |
| 8 | So cos apparently , while he was on the phone she came knocking at the door then |
| 9 | The dufflecoat would have been the one he had worn when he first came to work at the Establishment . |
| 10 | Later he came to work at the house which was his first entry into Local Government . |
| 11 | All Félix 's guests who came to dine at the château paid her extravagant compliments . |
| 12 | When fire protection officials came to look at the dump they discovered mattresses deposited by a bed company , furniture and even potentially hazardous oil cans . |
| 13 | When he came to look at the poem Miss Gilberd had intended to teach , Toby rather wondered at her judgement . |
| 14 | ‘ I came to look at the gravestone . ’ |
| 15 | When prospective buyers came to look at the house , which happened more and more frequently , they stayed out of the way until they had gone . |
| 16 | Dr Hunter came to look at the neck and shoulders . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | The bag came to rest at the small of her back . |
| 20 | The glass moved more smoothly , more quickly , then came to rest at the figure zero . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | There were so many people in the room that you could not pass a needle between them , so how it was that the Gypsy Kings , carrying large musical instruments and followed by a television crew , came to arrive at the dinner table unmaimed , must remain a mystery for ever . |
| 23 | Beginning in 1923 , when Vita and her husband ( Sir ) Harold Nicolson [ q.v. ] came to stay at the Villa Medici , the affair lasted into 1925 and was followed by the Scotts ' divorce in 1927 . |
| 24 | During my last year at Cambridge the Prime Minister , Mr Callaghan , came to speak at the Union . |
| 25 | It can also revive memories of childhood tantrums and distress , locking oneself in the lavatory or bathroom and shutting out the adults who came battering at the door . |
| 26 | 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 ’ . |
| 27 | Are you coming to look at the news ? |
| 28 | ‘ I 've got someone coming to look at the house in ten minutes . ’ |
| 29 | It rolled along the road coming to rest at the edge of the headlight beam . |
| 30 | I did n't want to say anything that could stop Sir Henry from coming to live at the Hall . |