Example sentences of "came [to-vb] at [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | The dufflecoat would have been the one he had worn when he first came to work at the Establishment . |
2 | Later he came to work at the house which was his first entry into Local Government . |
3 | All Félix 's guests who came to dine at the château paid her extravagant compliments . |
4 | 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 . |
5 | When he came to look at the poem Miss Gilberd had intended to teach , Toby rather wondered at her judgement . |
6 | ‘ I came to look at the gravestone . ’ |
7 | 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 . |
8 | Dr Hunter came to look at the neck and shoulders . |
9 | 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 . |
10 | 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 . |
11 | The bag came to rest at the small of her back . |
12 | The glass moved more smoothly , more quickly , then came to rest at the figure zero . |
13 | 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 . |
14 | 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 . |
15 | 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 . |
16 | During my last year at Cambridge the Prime Minister , Mr Callaghan , came to speak at the Union . |