Example sentences of "[adv] come to terms [prep] " in BNC.

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1 But now , nearly thirty years later , when he thought he had long come to terms with the deed and his own reaction to it , memory had begun to stir again .
2 Becker 's surprising defeat by Spain 's Jordi Burillo in Barcelona last week suggests the former Wimbledon and world champion has still not come to terms with playing on the European clay , which predominates to the end of the French Open in early June .
3 He confessed that he had finally come to terms with the fact that he was a homosexual , after a lifetime of denying it to himself .
4 ‘ He has finally come to terms with being a United player . ’
5 We in the law , like other denizens of these blessed isles , have perforce come to terms with the disagreeable factor of inflation .
6 If they have both come to terms with their differences and can now work together successfully , then they are to be congratulated .
7 Many of the people on my courses on dying , for example , had never really come to terms with the inevitability of death in their own lives , and many a time we had to stop to allow distressed and upset people to leave the room .
8 In her heart of hearts Celia knew that she had n't really come to terms with her condition at all , but she could n't say so point-blank to Alison .
9 And yet we have n't come to terms with that .
10 At that time she had n't come to terms with them , ’ he recalls .
11 ‘ Over two packs a day , very foolish for a diabetic , but she had n't come to terms with the illness at that stage , and was quite defiant about a number of things , Professor Rankin tells me . ’
12 ‘ My guess is that she had n't come to terms with the situation herself , ’ she said .
13 I have n't come to terms with the bloke I killed yet , but when I do , it will be frightening .
14 And an expert on the case believes she still has n't come to terms with what she 's done .
15 I always say that there are planetillions of humans in this galaxy who have n't even come to terms with being sapiens .
16 ‘ Colonel Fagg has never quite come to terms with the end of the Second World War , I 'm afraid , Elsa .
17 What happened next was to so profoundly influence the way the typesetting market operated that it still has n't fully come to terms with the consequences .
18 He 's not seen me , they 've gone straight past , he has not yet come to terms with the fact that his mummy 's a queen .
19 The party had not yet come to terms with the departure of Mrs Thatcher and was suffering an identity crisis .
20 It is a truism to say that we have not yet come to terms with it , or with the changes in relationships it has brought .
21 They were likely to make trouble , having not yet come to terms with the hurried departure of Mrs Thatcher following upon the events of November 1990 .
22 Eddie had been dead ten long years , a life so abruptly terminated that she had never come to terms with it .
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