Example sentences of "came [to-vb] at [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In contemporary eyes the theft was no wrong , no crime ; for it was the saint 's own wish — and the happy outcome , and the miracles she came to perform at Conques , proved that there was the home where she wished to dwell . |
| 2 | Grandad arrived in Baldersdale around the turn of the century , to work on the building of the reservoir , and came to lodge at Low Birk Hatt , when Great-Grandfather Tallentire was running it . |
| 3 | 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 : |
| 4 | in fact her brother er came to work at Oliver 's , er , er |
| 5 | Millworkers ' houses were erected by the owners of Kinleith Mill , along with other houses for the use of quarry workers who came to work at Torphin Quarry . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | That night Kalchu 's two brothers came to look at Sigarup , and the three men and Chola sat around the fire discussing in low worried voices what they were going to do . |
| 8 | When Colin came to play at David 's house the boys would ring the neighbours ' doorbells and run away , and throw things into their gardens . |
| 9 | ‘ And came to rest at Ridgery Butts , ’ commented the Friar thoughtfully . |
| 10 | When Bill Clough proposed , she accepted him and came to live at Petworth Estate . |
| 11 | ALMOST the first thing Jenny did when she came to live at Dale End was to fall in the river . |
| 12 | His Aunt Lucy came to live at Howfield in order to look after Ramsey 's father and the family after Agnes Ramsey was killed . |
| 13 | He came to live at Maureen 's , too , and she may well breed him with Rusty — if we 're right in thinking Rusty is a female , that is ! |
| 14 | Spinning by the village women fell into disuse by 1819 and the wheels were silent until Mr Albert Fleming and his housekeeper , Miss Twelves , came to live at Neaum Crag , Skelwith Bridge . |
| 15 | Somewhere in the stillness of the night an owl hooted — the first one she 'd heard since she came to live at Les Hiboux , Sabine realised , surprised . |
| 16 | However , Simon came to call at Regent 's Park , he had the perfect excuse . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Tanya and Katya came to stay at Ursula 's home in the Forest of Dean . |
| 19 | Charles came to stay at St-Martin in February 843 . |
| 20 | Harriet often came to stay at Netherhampton to catch up on all the ‘ gossip of Salisbury ’ and to take her mind off her romance with Shelley , thwarted at every step by her brother Charles . |
| 21 | Most of the people who came to eat at Bogle 's were men , and they loved the beautiful Aileen . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Asquith came to speak at Cambridge — now as the Earl of Oxford and Asquith . |