Example sentences of "finally [verb] to [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | finally got to Monica and we thought that was enough , so we just wrote Monica , we thought they 'd accept that and they did n't . |
| 2 | At Pentire Head , the much talked about ‘ last great problem ’ has finally fallen to Martin Crocker . |
| 3 | Such a page , offered to the Metropolitan Museum of Art , New York , for £25,000 , finally led to James 's arrest , as the sheet was recognised by Dr Estelle Whelan of the Centre for Iranian Studies at Columbia University , to whom the Met had turned for a second opinion . |
| 4 | Pictures of the two of them , hand in hand on the beach , fuelled rumours that the tennis champ was finally committed to Karen . |
| 5 | An ECU 500 million ( about US$625 million line of credit for food and agricultural products guaranteed by the European Communities ( EC ) to the former Soviet Union , which had been delayed since November , was finally granted to Russia alone , it was announced on March 4 by Deutsche Bank , whose Luxembourg subsidiary was the lead bank of the consortium providing the credit . |
| 6 | Norway finally succumbs to Ahab complex |
| 7 | On trips into London after we 'd finally moved to Wales , I would raid skips and bring back the booty on the car roof-rack . |
| 8 | Karen finally turned to Whitlock . |
| 9 | erm The Queen did n't arrive till 1643 , she 'd been in the Netherlands raising money for the war effort , very successfully , because she finally came to Oxford with 2,000 foot and 1,000 horsemen , and erm a hundred wagons full of equipment as well as cannons and so on . |
| 10 | When Samuel Reichmann finally came to Canada in 1958 , his son Paul was pecking out letters with two fingers on his typewriter in a dingy walk-up apartment on Palmerston Street where the bicycles and overshoes were left in the hallway . |
| 11 | The appointment of court organist there was finally offered to Mozart , with the indication that he might one day become Kapellmeister . |
| 12 | Pietro had finally agreed to Zen 's presence , on condition that there was no contact until the pay-off actually began , so during the intervening forty-eight hours he had had nothing to do with the case beyond having the ransom money photographed to record the serial numbers and finalizing the arrangements for collecting Ruggiero when he was released . |
| 13 | The US government finally agreed to India 's purchase of a Cray XMP 14 " supercomputer " , but not the more advance model which the Indians had requested . |
| 14 | I finally turned to Kent , not because of what had already been discovered there but because it was on my doorstep and a lot more accessible than either France or Wiltshire . |
| 15 | This was especially true of the first Dalek serial which had many rewrites done to it before it was finally handed to Christopher Barry and Raymond Cusick . |
| 16 | Aside from Boyce and Lee , these include Edward Howard , a CIA employee who finally defected to Moscow taking with him a hoard of secret information about his work ; the Walker trio who for 17 years handed over details of US Navy cryptograhic equipment to the Russians in exchange for $750,000 ; Bruce Ott , a USAF airman who tried to sell the Russians a copy of the SR-71 spy plane operating manual ; Robert Miller , an FBI agent who passed on secret documents to the Russians ; Ronald Pelton , a communications expert with the NSA who for five years gave the Russians details of his work ; Clyde Conrad , a retired US Army sergeant who for five years is alleged to have handed over top army contingency plans to the East ; and Jonathan Pollard , a US Navy counter-intelligence analyst who was paid $50,000 by Israeli intelligence for top naval information , a particularly embarrassing incident . |
| 17 | In the face of foreign invasion , James panicked and fled the country in December 1688 ( though it took him two attempts before he finally escaped to France ) , and in February 1689 a specially convened Convention Parliament established William and Mary as joint King and Queen and debarred all Catholics from the succession in the future . |
| 18 | They demurred politely , but finally succumbed to Alan 's persuasion . |
| 19 | When he finally returned to England in 1952 , an unreconstructed radical from the 1930s , he was appalled to discover that an acquiescent temper of mind , even Christianity itself , had returned to haunt a literary world he had once supposed forever cleared of the religious taint . |
| 20 | He had never seen that happen before , and decided to get it checked when he finally returned to England . |
| 21 | In 1903 he finally returned to England . |
| 22 | The early Voxes were imported into the UK , having originated from various sources , but production switched to Britain before finally moving to Italy towards the end of the '60s . |
| 23 | Thence it was finally brought to India in the thirteenth century by refugees fleeing Genghis Khan — at about the same time as Abelard was lecturing to his students at the new university of Paris . |
| 24 | Now , this morning , Edward Crumwallis had finally spoken to Hilary 's father , and the doctor 's words rang in his ears : |
| 25 | It was reported on July 14 that President Assad had finally replied to Bush 's letter of June 1 . |
| 26 | This then was the situation when Bruce Mackenzie , after much prompting from Jim and Jean finally proposed to Tina . |
| 27 | He was educated at Harrow , won an exhibition to New College , Oxford , where he failed to take a degree , and finally went to Trinity College , Dublin ( BA and MA , 1919 ) . |
| 28 | At the end of the luncheon Major Ronald Ferguson auctioned the brooch designed by Clive Ranger and generously donated , and it finally went to Mr Galen Weston 's bid of £8,500 . |
| 29 | Only in 396 , when Sant' Ambrogio had the remains of the saint brought to the city and placed in the church , did the name finally change to San Nazaro . |
| 30 | Anyone who is anyone in the world of hairdressing attended , and the ultimate accolade — British Hairdresser of the Year — was finally awarded to London stylist , Trevor Sorbie . |