Example sentences of "come [prep] [art] abrupt end " in BNC.
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| 1 | he had instead been cultivating his acquaintanceship with Mercer , a game plan that would have come to an abrupt end if the Lorrimores had deserted the trip , which they would have done at once if the Canadian had ploughed into their home-from-home . |
| 2 | The Nigerian adventure had come to an abrupt end with the arrival of a new military government and a ban on all imports . |
| 3 | The Uderzo-Goscinny partnership came to an abrupt end with Goscinny 's death in 1977 . |
| 4 | The trials came to an abrupt end when local fisheries officers found the frozen remains of common dolphins and pilot whales on board the fishing boats . |
| 5 | Most of the daughters ( except Rose , who lost an eye ) soon married , but Minnie 's marriage to Abe Greenbaum came to an abrupt end when she did a ‘ bunk with Claud ’ — a doctor she met on a visit to London . |
| 6 | Further down the lane the fields came to an abrupt end and an expanse of open ground stretched in front of her . |
| 7 | We were walking with our legs on ledges either side of a narrow passage when one of the ledges came to an abrupt end . |
| 8 | Subsequently , in 1899 , Carter was offered the position of Inspector General of Antiquities for Upper Egypt , but his post with the Egyptian Antiquities service came to an abrupt end when he was held responsible for a near diplomatic incident in which disgruntled French tourists assaulted some guards at a site . |
| 9 | However , this great satirical onslaught on the Royal Family came to an abrupt end . |
| 10 | All this soon came to an abrupt end . |
| 11 | Welch 's spell as an art student came to an abrupt end , however , in 1935 , at the age of twenty , when he was knocked off his bicycle by a motorist . |
| 12 | Hooley 's gilded years came to an abrupt end in June 1898 , when he himself filed a petition for the first and most sensational of his four bankruptcies . |
| 13 | Ironically his own tour of New Zealand with Ireland 12 months ago came to an abrupt end when he sustained a broken jaw in the first of two internationals . |
| 14 | The Spaniards were seven under par when the match came to an abrupt end on the 13th . |
| 15 | The bawling came to an abrupt end as Thomas frowned first at him and then down at his hand . |
| 16 | 2 years ago , a 5 month occupation of houses on hospital grounds at Malvern Wells came to an abrupt end . |
| 17 | STEFAN Edberg 's hopes of a third successive US Open crown came to an abrupt end when Karel Novacek pulled off a shock victory at Flushing Meadow . |
| 18 | That was the first weakness , the first failure , which had led on , so inevitably , through the series of , not after all so many , girls who did not matter , to the girl who mattered ; and to the point where Franca 's complaisant kindness must come to an abrupt end . |
| 19 | That it would come to an abrupt end in 1997 . |