Example sentences of "come [to-vb] at [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | In the early days of the strike Jayaben Desai , perhaps Britain 's best known Asian trade unionist , described to me what it had been like when she came to work at Grunwick in the mail order department : |
| 2 | Stuart had told me that Aj ( whose name is short for Arnold Junior , after the Head Forester of whom he became the spitting image when he first came to work at Clumber as a woodsman ten years ago at the age of sixteen ) was a dab hand with a tractor . |
| 3 | His Aunt Lucy came to live at Howfield in order to look after Ramsey 's father and the family after Agnes Ramsey was killed . |
| 4 | Balfour came to stay at Petworth between the wars and I read a letter to him from another guest saying that she was sure that what they would both remember most about the visit was the intense cold of the house . |
| 5 | Charles came to stay at St-Martin in February 843 . |
| 6 | After a spell at Oriel College , Oxford , where he later claimed to have suffered a worthless and drunken tutor , he came to reside at Dumbleton on his grandmother 's death in 1690 and inaugurated a programme of rebuilding and improvement . |
| 7 | After Corrections I joined Picture Group in 1981 and for some reason I ended up doing a lot of work for them in the ghettos , guns , drugs and things like that ; it became my forte and I came to feel at ease in this kind of environment . |
| 8 | 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 . |