Example sentences of "come [to-vb] 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 | The dufflecoat would have been the one he had worn when he first came to work at the Establishment . |
| 6 | Later he came to work at the house which was his first entry into Local Government . |
| 7 | All Félix 's guests who came to dine at the château paid her extravagant compliments . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | When he came to look at the poem Miss Gilberd had intended to teach , Toby rather wondered at her judgement . |
| 10 | ‘ I came to look at the gravestone . ’ |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Dr Hunter came to look at the neck and shoulders . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | The bag came to rest at the small of her back . |
| 16 | The glass moved more smoothly , more quickly , then came to rest at the figure zero . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | During my last year at Cambridge the Prime Minister , Mr Callaghan , came to speak at the Union . |
| 21 | 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 ’ . |
| 22 | Are you coming to look at the news ? |
| 23 | ‘ I 've got someone coming to look at the house in ten minutes . ’ |
| 24 | It rolled along the road coming to rest at the edge of the headlight beam . |
| 25 | I did n't want to say anything that could stop Sir Henry from coming to live at the Hall . |
| 26 | Classical conditioning principles suggest , what is indeed the case , that the bird will come to peck at the lit key . |
| 27 | The Times Educational Supplement applauded the increased use of intelligence tests and deplored the existing exams : ‘ Some day our successors may come to marvel at the degree of assurance which leads us to think that ability to profit can be predicted thus . |
| 28 | Wild water buffaloes come to drink at the villus , where their calves run the risk of being snatched by the jaws of a large mugger , the marsh crocodile of the Far East . |
| 29 | But when we come to look at the cluster and the and the audience contact then then you know we may see something a little bit different , Okay but er those are the important aspects things like things like whoops the use of the hands you know several people put their hands in their pockets or put them behind their back or something like that . |
| 30 | He was n't a bit precious and starry like so many of them who come to stay at the hotel . ’ |