Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [verb] to term [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When Diana joined the Stewart-Richardsons they were just coming to terms with a family tragedy . |
| 2 | Today at an emergency meeting with Union Leaders to discuss their future , they were still coming to terms with the shock of redundancy . |
| 3 | Mrs Adams said her four sons — Richard , nine , Stuart , five , Mark , two , and Thomas , 11 months — were still coming to terms with the loss of their father , a former Royal Air Force engineer whom she described as a happy , family man . |
| 4 | WORKERS at a Merseyide firm were today coming to terms with the news that they will be out of work in the New Year . |
| 5 | At the time , Lineker was just coming to terms with the fact that his baby son , George , was battling against leukaemia . |
| 6 | She was fast coming to terms with the fact that there were two sides to this man . |
| 7 | I was n't coming to terms with it and did n't know what to do . |