Example sentences of "[noun sg] come to a halt " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Suddenly the programme came to a halt and it was announced that the King had died , ’ recalls John Rusby , who was a seven-year-old pupil at Cockton Hill Infant School , Bishop Auckland . |
| 2 | At about a hundred yards , the car came to a halt . |
| 3 | Ashley swerved towards it , but as she ran the ambulance came to a halt beside a pad where a helicopter waited , a stretcher was ferried aboard and the helicopter rose up into the sky . |
| 4 | PLAY came to a halt when Ken Beach injured his foot playing against Windsor Buzzards in Division One of the Clacton and District Table Tennis League . |
| 5 | Only when the soldiers moved opposite the Palestinian front line at Galerie Semaan — and the familiar crackle of Beirut rifle fire began to make the troops nervous — did the Syrian column come to a halt as if scarcely able to take in its objectives . |
| 6 | When the Leicestershire and Northamptonshire Union Canal was being constructed to link the River Trent with the Grand Junction Canal at Northampton , and thus with London , work came to a halt at Gumley due to disputes about the proposed route and the high cost of constructing a tunnel through the hillside between Gumley and Foxton . |
| 7 | In Durham the engine came to a halt to take on more coal and water . |
| 8 | As the cart came to a halt he jumped out to help Joshua down . |
| 9 | The group came to a halt outside an old cottage on the front . |
| 10 | Before the hoist came to a halt , the Twins were up and out of it , hopping lightly ashore and closing in on the woman , one either side of her . |
| 11 | At a place known in advance only to a few , the motorcade comes to a halt . |
| 12 | It took half a mile to come to a halt after the crash and the driver was treated for shock . |
| 13 | At last Lucenzo buttoned his coat , and she pulled on her woollen gloves just as the taxi came to a halt . |
| 14 | The cab came to a halt . |
| 15 | Midnight came to a halt , snorting and pawing the ground . |
| 16 | The lift came to a halt and Roman practically lifted her into a quiet corridor with only one door opening from it . |
| 17 | The diesel locomotive came to a halt a matter of feet from the structure ; eight people were fined £2,500 and spent a week in prison . |
| 18 | The German advance came to a halt , and during the autumn months the French were able to retake all the ground that they had earlier lost . |
| 19 | When the rickshaw came to a halt , it was not at his house , but at the deserted harbour . |
| 20 | Although I must admit … ’ he paused to slow the car down before turning off the road to come to a halt outside an attractive inn , thatched , gabled and wooden-beamed , its façade ablaze with baskets of flowers , its forecourt furnished with long trestle-tables and carved wooden chairs . |
| 21 | A school , you know , is like — ’ here the headmaster came to a halt , because he had launched into a metaphor without having a metaphor readily to hand ; and in fact he had very few notions of what a school was like — ‘ is like the human body . |
| 22 | For Sartre , the journey came to a halt in 1956 when Soviet tanks rolled into Budapest . |
| 23 | Factories were closed , industry shut down and central government came to a halt ; there was no transport and the supermarket shelves emptied . |
| 24 | The companies say that if they are not allowed to produce HCFCs and HFCs for long enough to make a return on their investment , users will face a crisis when CFC manufacturing comes to a halt in the late 1990s . |
| 25 | International : Easter prayers answered as Etna lava flow comes to a halt |
| 26 | The sergeant came to a halt outside the adjutant 's hut , and an out-of-breath Charlie caught up with him just as the door was opened by a colour-sergeant who turned to Charlie and said , ‘ Stand to attention , lad , remain one pace behind me and do n't speak unless you 're spoken to . |
| 27 | ‘ Just afterwards , he said he had decided not to do it because of other work commitments , so the project came to a halt as a result of the difficulty in finding an actor to play the part ; it was n't really a gag script — it was made for an actor more than a comedian . |
| 28 | Because of the heat all work stopped about lunch-time and the city came to a halt . |
| 29 | As the bus came to a halt in Woodborough bus station , Laura slid open the window and lowered her string bag down to her son-in-law . |
| 30 | ‘ Just as well your particular brand of persuasion came to a halt when it did Dr Vaughan . |