Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] [verb] to an [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And then she realised that the hoof beats of his horse had come to an abrupt stop . |
| 2 | Her eyes had darkened to an intense , violent green , sparks flaring within their depths , and when he moved towards her once more she lifted her hand and hit him hard across the face , her palm cracking along his cheekbone with satisfying force . |
| 3 | But Lucy had moved to an easy chair and sat , chin cupped by an exquisite palm . |
| 4 | On 12 June 1990 , the morning after Scotland had lost to an unfancied Costa Rica side in their critical opening match in the Italia '90 World Cup , the Daily Record led with an agonising front-page story which wallowed in alliteration and dredged the dire , dismal and deplorable depths of defeat . |
| 5 | By the end of 1989 the proportion had risen to an estimated 6 or 7 per cent , representing 450,000 to 600,000 mortgagors . |
| 6 | The disabling whine had lessened to an irritating tinnitus . |
| 7 | In 1943 , the Maronites had agreed to an unwritten National Covenant which awarded them the presidency of Lebanon , command of the Lebanese army and other assets in return for their abandonment of French protection . |
| 8 | Inflation had slowed to an annual rate of 30 per cent by the end of the financial year , compared with 89 per cent the previous year . |
| 9 | She sensed that the barometer of their fraught relationship had plummeted to an all-time freeze and , at last , tormented beyond endurance , she stopped typing halfway through a schedule and went into his office . |
| 10 | The cafe was shut , she did not want to walk as the grass had withered to an unappealing brown , and she had left her papers at home . |
| 11 | Fifteen yards down the street , the man had come to an uncertain halt , his eyes searching both sides of the street for a glimpse of his prey . |
| 12 | The Gascons themselves were well aware that the 1259 treaty had led to an immediate change in their status . |
| 13 | Princess Diana 's relationship with her step-mother had deteriorated to an all-time low , culminating in that outburst which led to Raine 's fall downstairs . |
| 14 | Many of the other presentations reduced rationing to an academic exercise which ignored the current impact of decreased resources on the provision of health care . |
| 15 | The Financial Times of April 10 reported that the World Bank had agreed to an Indonesian request to establish and chair a new aid consultation forum . |
| 16 | Her voice trailed away as she saw that Laura had come to an abrupt halt beside her . |
| 17 | The Nigerian adventure had come to an abrupt end with the arrival of a new military government and a ban on all imports . |
| 18 | He seems to have been told that , though Turkey remained opposed to an independent state in northern Iraq , it supported some restoration of Kurdish rights . |
| 19 | It also meant that Leo had gone to an awful lot of trouble on her behalf . |
| 20 | By writing his tracts in German , Luther had appealed to an unlearned audience as well as to sympathetic scholars . |