Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [verb] to [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was one aspect of his life that Charles found hard to come to terms with , especially during this period when he was evaluating and reassessing his role in life . |
| 2 | Derek Jeffries was bought for Crystal Palace for £100,000 in September 1973 by Manager Malcolm Allison , who h , ad also been his boss at Manchester City , to help boost Palace 's struggling midfield as we sought desperately to come to terms with life after relegation to Division Two . |
| 3 | And er he 'd only got to sort of look at you and er that was it . |
| 4 | But … she 'd hardly spoken to Adam since the morning he 'd returned from Starr Hills . |
| 5 | He 'd earlier referred to discrepancies in gathering evidence which , while they had no bearing on this case , might affect future prosecutions |
| 6 | She 'd never resorted to violence in her life , but suddenly the thought of landing a punch square on that granite jaw was enormously appealing . |
| 7 | But this also means that as the morphology of species matured over great periods of historic time , other forms became more adapted to life on land , while yet others returned to the water to escape the increasing competition . |
| 8 | It failed really to come to grips with the contribution which voluntary organisations could make to a pattern of services . |
| 9 | While many Alfonsists became increasingly attracted to fascism after 1931 , openly fascist organizations made little headway in Spain before 1936 . |
| 10 | the people that went before have to sort of do it , but as I say he was n't er , er |
| 11 | England did finally come to terms with their first-half lineout problems . |
| 12 | While loss of learning ability among the elderly appeared primarily linked to difficulties in understanding , recall , and error abandonment , if these were corrected at an early stage ‘ old people can learn much more readily than is commonly supposed ’ ( Welford 1966 : 5 ) . |
| 13 | He had uneasily come to terms with the fact that Connors had been more than vague , had actually held back vital information . |
| 14 | He had swiftly risen to prominence during student demonstrations in favour of a multiparty system in Tirana in December 1990 , and the DP had that month been the first opposition party to be formed [ see p. 37924 ] . |
| 15 | One of the reasons for watching a raid on Germany was to provide some balance , as the pupils had all listened to accounts of raids on this country . |
| 16 | The Government of India had only moved to Delhi from Calcutta in 1911 , and the magnificent Lutyens buildings which today dominate New Delhi were still being built . |
| 17 | The new government pledged itself to deal with a range of serious environmental problems affecting the country , the extent of many of which had only come to light after the collapse of communist rule . |
| 18 | It is as if the words had suddenly come to life inside my head . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | The expected shortfall in social services funding for community care had already led to tightening of the criteria that social workers will use to decide who is eligible for care management , and patients with moderate needs for care might lose out altogether . |
| 21 | The Blues suspected the Georgians would be carpeted for their haphazard arranging of the first leg tie ; the Windsor Park club had already complained to UEFA about this . |
| 22 | The Blues suspected the Georgians would be carpeted for their haphazard arranging of the first leg tie ; the Windsor Park club had already complained to UEFA about this . |
| 23 | Irina was wearing a blue-and-brown check low-waisted summer dress with pleats , which Alison had already declared to Franca to be ‘ too smart , too old , and too expensive ’ . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Undoubtedly , such a milestone was passed in December 1965 , when the recently appointed Monsignor Harris , who at that time had just gone to London as the Senior Roman Catholic Chaplain to the prison service , was invited by the holy see , to become an Auxiliary Bishop in his native diocese of Liverpool . |
| 26 | She had just got to incarceration in a convent for the rest of her days when they arrived at the top of the stairs . |
| 27 | Julia , who had just returned to work after major brain surgery , was given the three-times-a-week slot Focus on Britain in the revamped News at Ten . |
| 28 | Michael Perrin , a young research worker who had just returned to Winnington from Amsterdam took his place . |
| 29 | Kermit Weeks and Linda Meyers had just returned to Florida from France where Kermit had flown the Week 's Solution ( an aerobatic type which he had designed ) in a competition . |
| 30 | But since any arrangement would need the consent of Louis VII to be valid , he had somehow to come to terms with the French King — despite Toulouse , despite Auvergne , despite Becket . |